The invention belongs to the technical field of
radio signal positioning, in particular to an
azimuth information-based beyond-visual-range target geographic coordinate direct
estimation method; the method comprises the following steps of establishing a two-dimensional angle array
signal model of each observation
station, wherein the two-dimensional angles comprise an
azimuth angle and a
pitch angle, and calculating respective
covariance matrixes; based on a
ground plane coordinate
system of each observation
station, establishing a
mathematical model of each
station arrival
azimuth angle relative to the target geographic coordinate parameters; utilizing the
covariance matrix of each station, and establishing a mathematical optimization model for jointly estimating the target geographic coordinate parameters and the pitching angle parameters according to the maximum likelihood
estimation criterion; and solving the mathematical optimization model through iteration, and obtaining a targetaddress coordinate. By adoption of the method, the target positioning precision under a low
signal-to-
noise ratio can be remarkably improved, the
estimation precision of the target
pitch angle is improved, and the convergence speed is relatively high, high-dimensional searching is not needed, and the calculation amount of real-time positioning can be effectively reduced; and the method is relatively high in practical application value, stable and reliable in performance, and efficient.