The book covers the design formulations for broadband beamformer targeting nearfield and farfield sources. The book content includes background information on the acoustic environment, including propagation medium, the array geometries, signal models and basic beamformer designs. Subsequently it introduces design formulation for nearfield, farfield and mixed nearfield-farfield beamformers and extends the design formulation into electronically steerable beamformers. In addition, a robust formulation is introduced for all the designs mentioned.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Acoustic Environment.- Broadband Beamformer Design in Element Space.- Steerable Broadband Beamformer Design in Element Space.- Robust Formulation.- Conclusion and Future Work.