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A novel direction-of-arrival estimation method for wideband signals

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A simple and novel direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation method for wideband signals is proposed. The proposed method estimates DOAs according to a covariance matrix which is constructed by summing up the covariance matrices of various frequency bins. It provides a lower computation complexity and a better performance compared to the traditional wideband DOA methods. This new idea is inspired by the concept of focusing transformation, and its validity is theoretically proved. A technique to determine an optimal focusing frequency is also introduced. Finally, simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the method.

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  1. College of Information and Communication Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, 150001, China

    Chunjing Liu & Shu Zhang

  2. National Information Control Laboratory, Chengdu, 610036, China

    Chunjing Liu & Feng Liu

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Liu, C., Liu, F. & Zhang, S. A novel direction-of-arrival estimation method for wideband signals. SIViP 6, 141–145 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-010-0175-7

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