Methods systems and system components for optimizing contrast resolution
of an imaging or sensing system utilizing multiple channels of broadband
data associated with an array of transducers. Channels or data are
filtered by passing the channels of data through finite impulse response
(FIR) filters on each channel. The filters each have multiple taps having
tap weights pre-calculated as a function of distance of the array from an
object that energy is being transmitted to or reflected from. The weights
are pre-computed through a deterministic equation based on an a priori
system model.