Journal of Xidian University ›› 2019, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (5): 98-104.doi: 10.19665/j.issn1001-2400.2019.05.014

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Novelmethod for low-altitude target angle estimation

HUANG Baotao,JIANG Min,WU Guangxin,XING Wen’ge   

  1. Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology, Nanjing 210039, China
  • Received:2019-01-28 Online:2019-10-20 Published:2019-10-30

Abstract:

Multipath distortion has been a challenge problem for direction of arrival (DOA) in low-altitude and ultra-low-altitude targets. In this paper, a novel DOA estimation method without characteristic decomposition is proposed based on the three-subarray. In view of this method, three subarrays are established by spatial smoothing to reduce the dimension of the signal matrix. On top of this, the orthogonal vector of the received signal is constructed based on the special form of the three-subarray received signal in multipath environment. Finally, a new cost function is derived to estimate the DOAs. It is worth mentioning that de-correlation and source number estimation is not required in this method. Compared with conventional methods, its superiority appears in DOA estimation accuracy for low angle targets in the low signal noise ratio by numerical simulation.

Key words: multipaths, spatial smoothing, three subarrays, direction of arrival

CLC Number: 

  • TN820