A multirate nonuniform subband method with general parameter filter banks for wideband beamforming of harmonic nested array is proposed. The harmonic nested array is composed of several uniformly-spaced linear subarrays, each of which processes an octave subband signal. The nonuniform subband signal is generated by general parameter filter banks. Each subarray beamforming is carried out with space-frequency signal processing approach, and four subarrays share the same weights among themselves. Based on this kind of processing architecture, the proposed beamformer splits the wideband signal int...
