TR-AC-0012 :1997.11.21

Abdesselam Klouche-Djedid

A Multi-Beamspace High-Resolution DOA Finding Algorithm for Wide-Band Sensor Arrays

Abstract:We propose a multi-beamspace Wide-Band(WB)digital beamforming system for the simultaneous high-resolution Direction Of Arrival (DOA) detection of WB coherent and incoherent sources clustered around separate regions each of which is scanned by a fixed number of WB beams. The Coherent Signal Subspace algorithm is applied at the beamspace level for each set of beams pointing to the same angle resulting in higher detection performance compared to a direct element-space processing, sometimes with a lower computational cost as observed through some computer simulation examples.