Estimation Method for Mixed Near-Field and Far-Field Sources Based on Four-Order Cumulant and Polarization Sensitive Array

Abstract

A new multidimensional parameters joint estimation method of mixed near-field and far-field sources based on polarization sensitive array, fourth-order cumulant, joint diagonalization technology, and propagator method is presented, which can realize the joint estimation of DOA (Direction of Arrival), range, frequency, polarization auxiliary angle, and polarization phase difference without multidimensional spectral peak searching and parameter pairing, and it is suitable for any additive Gaussian noise environment and effective for reducing the loss of array aperture. The algorithm skillfully constructs the fourth-order cumulant matrix by using the output on the label of specific dipole pairs of the received array, which effectively avoids the matrix rank reduction caused by the far-field sources coexistence situation. In addition, the presented algorithm utilizes the orthogonal propagation algorithm for subspace decomposition and uses the total least square solution to replace the orthogonal solution of singular value decomposition, which effectively reduces the computational complexity. The experiment proved the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.