TOPS: new DOA estimator for wideband signals

This paper introduces a new direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation algorithm for wideband sources called test of orthogonality of projected subspaces (TOPS). This new technique estimates DOAs by measuring the orthogonal relation between the signal and the noise subspaces of multiple frequency compone...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on signal processing 2006-06, Vol.54 (6), p.1977-1989
Main Authors: Yeo-Sun Yoon, Kaplan, L.M., McClellan, J.H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Applied sciences
Array signal processing
Arrays
Coherence
Computer simulation
Coverings
Detection, estimation, filtering, equalization, prediction
Direction of arrival estimation
direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation
Exact sciences and technology
Frequency estimation
Frequency measurement
Information, signal and communications theory
Multi-stage noise shaping
Multiple signal classification
Noise measurement
Signal and communications theory
signal subspace method
Signal, noise
Subspaces
Telecommunications and information theory
Testing
Tops
Two dimensional displays
Wideband
wideband sources
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Summary:This paper introduces a new direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation algorithm for wideband sources called test of orthogonality of projected subspaces (TOPS). This new technique estimates DOAs by measuring the orthogonal relation between the signal and the noise subspaces of multiple frequency components of the sources. TOPS can be used with arbitrary shaped one-dimensional (1-D) or two-dimensional (2-D) arrays. Unlike other coherent wideband methods, such as the coherent signal subspace method (CSSM) and WAVES, the new method does not require any preprocessing for initial values. The performance of those wideband techniques and incoherent MUSIC is compared with that of the new method through computer simulations. The simulations show that this new technique performs better than others in mid signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) ranges, while coherent methods work best in low SNR and incoherent methods work best in high SNR. Thus, TOPS fills a gap between coherent and incoherent methods.
ISSN:1053-587X
1941-0476
DOI:10.1109/TSP.2006.872581