Title : 
DOA estimation using blind separation of sources
         
        
            Author : 
Hirari, Mehrez ; Hayakaw, Masashi
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Earth Obs. Res. Center, Nat. Space Agency of Japan, Japan
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We propose a new approach for the estimation of DOA for polarized EM waves using blind separation of sources. In this approach we use a vector-sensor, a sensor whose output is a complete set of the EM field components of the irradiating wave and we reconstruct the waveforms of all the original signals; that is, all the EM components of the source´s field. The blind separation of sources is made iteratively using a recurrent Hopfield-like single layer neural network. The simulation results for two sources have been investigated. We have considered coherent and incoherent sources, and also the case of varying DOA´s vis-a-vis to the sensor and a varying polarization
         
        
            Keywords : 
Hopfield neural nets; direction-of-arrival estimation; electromagnetic fields; electromagnetic wave polarisation; iterative methods; signal reconstruction; DOA estimation; EM field components; blind separation of sources; coherent sources; incoherent sources; irradiating wave; iterative method; polarized EM waves; recurrent Hopfield-like single layer neural network; simulation; varying polarization; vector-sensor; waveform reconstruction; Array signal processing; Direction of arrival estimation; Earth; Magnetic field measurement; Magnetic sensors; Neural networks; Polarization; Sensor arrays; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Vectors;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Higher-Order Statistics, 1997., Proceedings of the IEEE Signal Processing Workshop on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Banff, Alta.
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-8186-8005-9
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/HOST.1997.613537