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Two-Dimensional DOA Estimation by Cross-Correlation Matrix Stacking

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In this paper, we present a novel scheme to improve the two-dimensional (2-D) direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation performance for narrowband signals impinging on two orthogonal uniform linear arrays (ULAs). The proposed scheme exploits the cross-correlation matrix information between subarray data to construct a stacking matrix and derive an expanded signal subspace representation through the singular value decomposition (SVD). This method enables the alleviation of the effects of additive noise. In particular, 2-D DOA estimation can be achieved by computing two rotation matrices with the same set of eigenvectors obtained by partitioning the expanded signal subspace. The pair matching procedure for elevation and azimuth angles is implemented by permutation test. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method performs better than the existing techniques in DOA estimation as well as the detection of successful pair matching.

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Gu, JF., Wei, P. & Tai, HM. Two-Dimensional DOA Estimation by Cross-Correlation Matrix Stacking. Circuits Syst Signal Process 30, 339–353 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00034-010-9225-1

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