A new technique for direction of arrival estimation for ionospheric multipath channels

A novel array signal processing technique is proposed to estimate HF channel parameters including number of paths, their respective direction of arrivals (DOA), delays, Doppler shifts and amplitudes. The proposed technique utilizes the Cross Ambiguity Function (CAF), hence, called as the CAF-DF technique. The CAF-DF technique iteratively processes the array output data and provides reliable estimates for DOA, delay, Doppler shift and amplitude corresponding to each impinging HF propagated wave onto an antenna array. Obtained results for both real and simulated data at different signal to noise ratio (SNR) values indicate the superior performance of the proposed technique over the well known MUltiple SIgnal Classification (MUSIC) technique.     

基于非圆信号的单次快拍二维DOA新算法

针对双平行线阵相干信号二维波达方向(DOA,Direction of Arrival)快速估计问题,利用信号的非圆特性,提出了一种基于非圆信号的单次快拍数据的二维DOA算法.建立新的阵列坐标系,对阵列接收单次快拍数据进行共轭运算,通过数据重新链接得到伪快拍数据,阵列孔径扩展1倍.仅需要对3个伪单快拍矩阵的扩展矩阵进行一次奇异值分解即可实现二维DOA估计和解相干.该算法计算复杂度低,估计精度高,适用于对二维DOA估计实时性要求高的应用背景.计算机仿真结果验证了方法的有效性.