J4 ›› 2015, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (1): 35-41.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-2400.2015.01.006

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DOA estimation method by utilizing sparse representation of the covariance matrix

XIE Hu;FENG Dazheng;YUAN Mingdong   

  1. (National Key Lab. of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian Univ., Xi'an  710071, China)
  • Received:2013-11-11 Online:2015-02-20 Published:2015-04-14
  • Contact: XIE Hu E-mail:xiehumor@gmail.com

Abstract:

A direction of arrival (DOA) estimation method based on a new sparse representation model of the covariance matrix is proposed. Without requiring the prior-knowledge on the noise level, the proposed method only utilizes partial information on the covariance matrix for the DOA estimation and provides robustness to noise at the cost of a tiny aperture loss. Although the proposed method is based on the statistical information on samples (i.e., covariance matrix), its principle is different from that of the traditional high-resolution DOA estimation methods (e.g., MUSIC, CAPON). The proposed method can effectively distinguish the signal sources with any coherence without decorrelation processing.

Key words: sparse representation, direction-of-arrival estimation, high-resolution, covariance matrix, multiple measurement, correlative signal