Title
Spatial smoothing based methods for direction-of-arrival estimation of coherent signals in nonuniform noise.
Abstract
Spatial smoothing techniques have been widely used to estimate the directions-of-arrival (DOAs) of coherent signals. However, in general these techniques are derived under the condition of uniform white noise and, therefore, their performance may be significantly deteriorated when nonuniform noise occurs. This motivates us to develop new methods for DOA estimation of coherent signals in nonuniform noise in this paper. In our methods, the noise covariance matrix is first directly or iteratively calculated from the array covariance matrix. Then, the noise component in the array covariance matrix is eliminated to achieve a noise-free array covariance matrix. By mitigating the effect of noise nonuniformity, conventional spatial smoothing techniques developed for uniform white noise can thus be employed to reconstruct a full-rank signal covariance matrix, which enables us to apply the subspace-based DOA estimation methods effectively. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.dsp.2017.05.002
Digital Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Direction-of-arrival estimation,Nonuniform noise,Coherent signals,Spatial smoothing
Value noise,Pattern recognition,Noise measurement,Direction of arrival,White noise,Smoothing,Artificial intelligence,Covariance matrix,Gaussian noise,Mathematics,Gradient noise
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
67
1051-2004
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
13
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jun Wen142.46
Bin Liao219632.33
Chongtao Guo37311.11