The application belongs to the technical field of time modulation array, and relates to a direction and polarization joint
estimation method based on a time modulation array, which comprises the following steps: establishing an
alternating polarization time modulation array, obtaining the received
signal of each
array element, a time
modulation function and the polarization vector of each
array element, then obtaining the actual received
signal of each
array element, and establishing a
linear relationship among the
harmonic component of each subarray received
signal, a polarization parameter and an incident direction; according to the
linear relationship, obtaining the relationship between the direction disturbance and the direction function disturbance,
rewriting the vector formed by the subarray
harmonic component into a form containing a
noise term, obtaining the error disturbance between the true value of the direction function and the corresponding
estimation quantity, and then obtaining the
estimation value of the direction; according to the
linear relationship, obtaining the relationship between the polarization matching coefficient of the array manifold vector estimation value and the
antenna polarization and the polarization of the
radiation source, and then obtaining the estimation value of the polarization. The application can realize joint estimation of the direction and the polarization.