Source Number Estimation Method for Polarization Sensitive Arrays

Abstract

The invention discloses an information source number estimation method for a polarization sensitive array. The method includes the following steps that spatial electromagnetic wave signals are received through a polarization sensitive array formed by N polarization sensitive array elements, and receiving data are obtained; a covariance matrix is calculated according to the data received by the polarization sensitive array; feature value decomposition is conducted on the covariance matrix, 2 N feature values and feature vectors corresponding to the 2 N feature values are solved, and the 2 N feature values are sorted in a descending mode from big to small; feature removal treatment is conducted on the covariance matrix through the sorted front N feature values, corresponding N new covariance matrixes are obtained, and a projection matrix is built through sub spaces formed by the feature vectors corresponding to the sorted rear N feature values; projection on the projection matrix of the N new covariance matrixes is solved respectively; the information source number is estimated according to a projection structure criterion function. According to the information source number estimation method for the polarization sensitive array, the information source number is estimated through a noise sub spatial dimension feature of the polarization sensitive array, the calculated amount is reduced, and the cost is saved.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the research field of high-resolution direction-finding algorithms in signal processing, and in particular relates to a method for estimating the number of sources of polarization-sensitive arrays using the characteristic of the subspace dimension of polarization-sensitive array noise. Background technique [0002] The polarization-sensitive array is an array formed by placing the polarization-sensitive array elements in a certain form in space. The polarization information of the electromagnetic wave can be obtained by using the polarization-sensitive array elements. The polarization information is represented by the polarization-sensitive array elements. The correlation characteristics between orthogonal channels, while the spatial information is expressed as the spatial phase delay between adjacent array elements, so the spatial arrangement of polarization-sensitive arrays can be used to obtain spatial information. Polarizat...

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However, the above existing source number estimation methods are all derived under the traditional scalar sensor array model, and the existing source number estimation methods for polarization-sensitive arrays all directly use the source number estimation algorithm of the traditional scalar array Extended application to the estimation of polarization-sensitive arrays does not take into account the characteristics of polarization-sensitive arrays

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