The invention discloses a low 
elevation angle DOA 
estimation method based on an RBF neural network. The low 
elevation angle DOA 
estimation method based on the RBF neural network comprises the following steps: S1, selecting a trace point whose 
elevation angle is a low elevation angle in measured data, using a true elevation angle corresponding to the trace point with the low elevation angle as a 
label Y for training the neural network, wherein Y=[y<1>, y<2>,. . . , y<n>], obtaining a 
data covariance matrix R corresponding to y according to the 
label y, and extracting corresponding realpart features and imaginary part features from the 
data covariance matrix R to obtain a 
column vector r; S2, performing normalization on all the column vectors [r<1>,r<2>,. . . , r<n>] to obtain an input normX for training the RBF neural network; S3, calculating a 
basis function center of the RBF neural network, and calculating a 
basis function variance according to the 
basis function center; S4, calculating a connection weight between a 
hidden layer and an output layer according to the basis function variance to obtain a trained neural network; and S5, performing normalization 
processing on 
test set samples and inputting into the trained neural network to calculate an incoming wave arrival angle. The low elevation angle DOA 
estimation method based on the RBF neural network providedby the invention improves the target reconnaissance accuracy, reduces the calculation amount, and solves the problem that the DOA estimation accuracy is low and the calculation amount is large in ancomplex environment in the prior art.