Title :
Applications of cumulants to array processing. Part VI. Polarization and direction of arrival estimation with minimally constrained arrays
Author :
Gönen, Egemen ; Mendel, Jerry M.
Author_Institution :
Globalstar LP, San Jose, CA, USA
fDate :
9/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A fourth-order statistics-based method is presented for joint estimation of polarization and direction of arrival parameters of as many as M-1 narrowband signals with an M-element array having M-3 elements that are of arbitrary and unknown response and geometry and a subarray consisting of three short dipole antennas configured in a certain fashion. The method is computationally efficient and offers considerable savings in hardware over a recently published second-order statistics based method
Keywords :
array signal processing; dipole antenna arrays; direction-of-arrival estimation; electromagnetic wave polarisation; higher order statistics; DOA estimation; M-element array; arbitrary geometry; arbitrary response; array processing; cumulants; direction of arrival estimation; fourth-order statistics-based method; minimally constrained arrays; polarization estimation; short dipole antennas; unknown geometry; unknown response; Antenna arrays; Array signal processing; Dipole antennas; Direction of arrival estimation; Directive antennas; Geometry; Hardware; Narrowband; Polarization; Statistics;
Journal_Title :
Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on
