Abstract
A novel method for two-dimensional direction-of-arrival estimation of coherently distributed (CD) noncircular sources is proposed. It is the first time that we introduce the noncircularity of signal into CD model to estimate central azimuth angle and central elevation angle. Numerical simulations are also provided in contrast with the other ESPRIT-like method. The results indicate that our proposed method owns better estimation performance under both low signal-to-noise ratio and small number of array elements.



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This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61301155 and 61176025, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities project No. ZYGX2012J003, for which the authors would like to express their thanks. The authors also wish to thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful and constructive comments and suggestions.
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Yang, X., Li, G., Zheng, Z. et al. 2D DOA Estimation of Coherently Distributed Noncircular Sources. Wireless Pers Commun 78, 1095–1102 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-014-1803-2
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