The invention discloses a meter-
wave radar low elevation estimating method based on a minimum redundancy linear sparse submatrix. The meter-
wave radar low elevation estimating method based on the minimum redundancy linear sparse submatrix mainly solves the problem that errors of
estimation of meter-
wave radar low elevations are large in the prior art. The meter-wave
radar low elevation estimating method based on the minimum redundancy linear sparse submatrix comprises the implementation steps of (1) structuring a minimum redundancy linear sparse submatrix meter-wave
radar, (2) extracting target signals from
radar echoes, (3) calculating auto-
covariance matrixes of submatrixes and
cross covariance matrixes among the submatrixes, (4) structuring an
augmented matrix of whole array data
covariance matrixes, (5) restoring the rank of the
augmented matrix by applying a spatial
smoothing algorithm of distributed submatrixes, (6) carrying out characteristic
decomposition on the
covariance matrixes to obtain
signal subspaces, (7) obtaining direction cosine non-fuzziness coarse
estimation, (8) obtaining direction cosine fuzziness fine
estimation, and (9) solving the fuzziness of the fine estimation by using the coarse estimation to obtain low elevation estimation with high precision and without fuzziness. According to the meter-wave radar low elevation estimating method based on the minimum redundancy linear sparse submatrix, the aperture of the meter-wave radar is expanded, the threshold of the
signal to
noise ratio is lowered, the precision of the lower elevation estimation is improved, and the method can be used for positioning and tracking targets.