Abstract:

To enhance the resolution of parameter estimation with limited samples received by a short passive array, an iterative nonparametric algorithm for estimating the frequencies and direction-of-arrivals (DOAs) of signals is proposed. The cost function is constructed using l2-norm Gaussian entropy combined with an additional constraint, l2-norm constraint or linear constraint. By minimizing the cost functions in the temporal and the spatial
dimensions using corresponding iteration algorithms respectively, the sparse discrete Fourier transforms (DFTs) of temporal and spatial samples are obtained to represent the extrapolated sequences with much larger sizes than the original samples. Then frequency and angle estimates are obtained by performing the traditional simple
methods on the extrapolated sequences. It is shown that the proposed algorithm offers increased resolution and significantly reduced sidelobes compared with the periodogram and beamforming based methods. And it achieves high precision compared with the high-resolution method with lower computational burden. Some numerical simulations and real data processing results are presented to verify the effectiveness of the method.