The present invention discloses a method for estimating the
direction of arrival of a coherent
signal, belonging to the field of ship
radar and communication
signal processing. The method comprises: a transmitting end sends a
pilot signal of a target power to a receiving end, and the receiving end obtains the
multipath delay structure of the channel based on the
pilot signal; the transmitting end sends a normal
pilot signal to the receiving end, and calculates the cross-
correlation function between the received signal and the transmitted signal; the peak values ​​of the cross-
correlation function are sorted in descending order to determine the candidate possibilities of the first
delay, and the cross-
correlation function after the composite path is calculated to determine the shortest
delay; a cost function for the
delay is constructed, and the cost function is differentiated with respect to two independent variables to obtain an estimated value of the
arrival time difference; the
direction of arrival is calculated from the estimated value of the
arrival time difference, completing the one-dimensional
direction of arrival estimation of the coherent signal applied to a uniform
linear array. This method can improve the detection accuracy of
passive radar and
sonar equipment for targets and enhance the comprehensive detection capability of surface ships.