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

Volume

47

Issue

9

fYear

1999

fDate

9/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2589

Lastpage

2592

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;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1053-587X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/78.782216

Filename

782216