In this paper, we propose a novel source localization method to estimate parameters of arbitrary field sources, which may lie in near-field region or far-field region of array aperture. The proposed method primarily constructs two special spatial-temporal covariance matrixes which can avoid the array aperture loss, and then estimates the frequencies of signals to obtain the oblique projection matrixes. By using the oblique projection technique, the covariance matrixes can be transformed into several data matrixes which only contain single source information, respectively. At last, based on the sparse signal recovery method, these data matrixes are utilized to solve the source localization problem. Compared with the existing typical source localization algorithms, the proposed method improves the estimation accuracy, and provides higher angle resolution for closely spaced sources scenario. Simulation results are given to demonstrate the performance of the proposed algorithm.
In the paper,polarization-sensitive array is exploited at the receiver of multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar system,a novel method is proposed for joint estimation of direction of departure (DOD),direction of arrival (DOA) and polarization parameters for bistatic MIMO radars.A signal model of polarimetric MIMO radar is developed,and the multi-parameter estimation algorithm for target localization is described by exploiting polarization array processing and the invariance property in both transmitter array and receiver array.By making use of polarization diversity techniques,the proposed method has advantages over traditional localization algorithms for bistatic MIMO radar.Simulations show that the performance of DOD and DOA estimation is greatly enhanced when different states of polarization of echoes is fully utilized.Especially,when two targets are closely spaced and cannot be well separated in spatial domain,the estimation resolution of traditional algorithms will be greatly degraded.While the proposed algorithm can work well and achieve high-resolution identification and accurate localization of multiple targets.
This paper presents a novel near-field source localization method based on the time-frequency sparse model.Firstly,the method converts the time domain data of array output into time-frequency domain by time-frequency transform;then constructs sparse localization model by utilizing the specially selected time-frequency points,and finally the greedy algorithms are chosen to solve the sparse problem to localize the source.When the coherent sources exist,we propose an additional iterative selection procedure to improve the estimation performance.The proposed method is suitable for uncorrelated and coherent sources,moreover,the improved estimation accuracy and the robustness to low signal to noise ratio(SNR) are achieved.Simulations results verify the efficiency of the proposed algorithm.
