dr.ir. S. van der Tol
PhD student
Signal Processing Systems (SPS), Department of Microelectronics
Signal Processing Systems (SPS), Department of Microelectronics
PhD thesis (Nov 2009): Bayesian estimation for ionospheric calibration in radio astronomy
Promotor: Alle-Jan van der Veen, Huub R?ttgering (Leiden)
Expertise: Radio astronomy signal processing
Biography
Bas van der Tol was a PhD student at CAS. After graduation, he became a postdoc in the Astronomy group at Leiden University, working on LOFAR system calibration.
Publications
- Calibration Challenges for the Next Generation of Radio Telescopes
S.J. Wijnholds; S. van der Tol; R. Nijboer; A.J. van der Veen;
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine,
Volume 27, Issue 1, pp. 32-42, January 2010.
document - An ionospheric turbulence model for LOFAR calibration
S. van der Tol; A.J. van der Veen;
In URSI Benelux formum,
pp. {3 pp.} address, June 2009.
document - Bayesian estimation for ionospheric calibration in radio astronomy
S. van der Tol;
PhD thesis, TU Delft, Dept. EEMCS, November 2009.
document - Self Calibration for the LOFAR Radio Astronomical Array
S. van der Tol; B. Jeffs; A.J. van der Veen;
IEEE Tr. Signal Processing,
Volume 55, Issue 9, pp. 4497-4510, September 2007. ISSN 1053-587X. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2007.896243
document - Ionospheric Calibration for the LOFAR Radio Telescope
S. van der Tol; A.J. van der Veen;
In Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Signals, Circuits, Systems,
Iasi (RO), IEEE, pp. 457-460, July 2007. ISBN 1-4244-0968-3.
document - Direction dependent self calibration of large distributed sensor arrays
B.D. Jeffs; S. van der Tol; A.J. van der Veen;
In Proc. IEEE ICASSP,
Toulouse (FR), IEEE, May 2006.
document - CRB analysis of the impact of unknown noise on phased array calibration
S. van der Tol; S. Wijnholds;
In Proc. IEEE workshop on Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing (SAM),
Waltham, MA (USA), IEEE, pp. 185-189, July 2006.
document - Ionospheric calibration from an spcom perspective
S. van der Tol; A.J. van der Veen;
In SKA Calibration and Imaging workshop,
Cape Town (South Africa), December 2006.
document - Spatial filtering of interfering signals at the initial Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) phased array test station
A.J. Boonstra; S. van der Tol;
Radio Science,
Volume 40, Issue RS5S09, pp. (16 pages), 2005. doi:10.1029/2004RS003135.
document - Performance Analysis of Spatial Filtering of RF Interference in Radio Astronomy
S. van der Tol; A.J. van der Veen;
IEEE Tr. Signal Proc.,
Volume 53, Issue 3, pp. 896-910, March 2005.
document - Calibration, sensitivity and RFI mitigation requirements for LOFAR
A.J. Boonstra; S.J. Wijnholds; S. van der Tol; B. Jeffs;
In Proc. IEEE ICASSP,
Philadelphia (PA), IEEE, pp. V-869-872, March 2005.
document - Application of Robust Capon Beamforming to radio astronomical imaging
S. van der Tol; A.J. van der Veen;
In Proc. IEEE ICASSP,
Philadelphia (PA), IEEE, pp. IV-1089-1092, March 2005.
document - Calibration of a Large Distributed Low Frequency Radio Astronomical Array (LOFAR)
S. van der Tol; B.D. Jeffs; A.J. van der Veen;
In Proc. of the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2005),
Antalya, Turkey, September 2005.
document - Performance of spatial filtering of RF interference in radio astronomy
S. van der Tol; A.J. van der Veen;
In IEEE Benelux Signal Processing Chapter Signal Processing Symposium,
Leuven (BE), March 2002.
document - Mitigation of continuous interference in radio astronomy using spatial filtering
S. van der Tol; A.J. van der Veen; A.J. Boonstra;
In URSI General Assembly,
Maastricht (NL), August 2002.
document - 4-channel wavelength flattened demultiplexer integrated with photodetectors
C. A. M. Steenbergen; C van Dam; T. L. M. Scholtes; A. H. de Vreede; L. Shi; J.J.G.M van der Tol; P. Demeester; M.K. Smit;
In Proc. 7th Eur. Conf. on Int. Opt. (ECIO �95),
1995.
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Last updated: 13 Jul 2014
Bas van der Tol
Alumnus- Left in 2009
- Now: ASTRON (Dwingeloo)
- Personal webpage