This invention proposes a conformal array direction finding method and
system based on
hybrid resolution quantization, relating to the field of direction-of-arrival (DOA)
estimation in
passive radar. It aims to reduce the high
resource consumption of conformal arrays in DOA
estimation, thereby solving the deployment challenges of direction finding under space-constrained conditions such as UAV positioning or vehicle-mounted
radar. The method involves designing the conformal array structure; constructing models of the received
signal from the receiving antenna and the transmitted
signal from the transmitting antenna to obtain received data; using the designed structure to receive high-precision and low-precision quantized data, and
processing the low-precision quantized data according to an additive
Gaussian noise model to obtain received data under
hybrid resolution quantization; performing
covariance decomposition on the received data under
hybrid resolution quantization; and performing spectral peak search on the
covariance-decomposed hybrid resolution quantized data to estimate DOA and polarization information. This invention is applicable to direction finding methods for conformal arrays.