The invention discloses a 3D
underwater electric field source positioning method based on cross array arrival angle
estimation, and belongs to the field of electromagnetic positioning detection. The method comprises the steps of setting two groups of receiving
electrode array components, obtaining respective
noise subspaces of an X-axis array
signal and a Y-axis array
signal, constructing a first
spatial spectrum function of a
signal source rotating around an X axis and a second
spatial spectrum function of the
signal source rotating around a Y axis, performing two-dimensional search based on the first
spatial spectrum function and the second spatial
spectrum function, and obtaining a two-dimensional search result. And according to the rotation mapping relation in the space coordinate
system, solving and obtaining a 3D coordinate result of the
signal source based on the search result. According to array symmetry and matrix operation invariance, a
processing mode of imaginary axis-around arrival angle
estimation based on a cross array is provided, three-dimensional space searching is converted into two-time two-dimensional plane searching, the
dipole moment direction is simplified, and therefore rapid and accurate positioning of a near-field space
signal source is achieved.