Applications of minimum redundancy arrays in adaptive beamforming

It is shown, through analysis and simulation, that the use of a minimum redundancy array (MRA) in conjunction with an adaptive beamformer results in performance superior to that attained by a comparable system based on an array with uniformly spaced elements, or uniform array (UA) in terms of rejecting interferences located in close angular proximity to the look direction. Further, it is demonstrated that choosing the adaptive elements of a thinned adaptive array (TAA) based on a minimum spatial redundancy criterion, rather than spacing them uniformly, results in improved rejection of main lobe interferences, with negligible degradation in sidelobe interference rejection capabilities