The application discloses a
lightning VHF interference positioning method based on an irregular array, relates to the
lightning positioning field, and comprises the following steps: S1, acquiring the antenna positions of N
station interferometers and calculating the
time difference τ of a
radiation source reaching all baselines ij ; S2, judging whether all the antennas are on the same plane, if yes, entering S3, otherwise, entering S4; S3, calculating the positioning direction of the
radiation source by using M groups of baselines and entering S6; S4, combining any three stations to form a selection; S5, calculating the direction of the
radiation source under each selection and determining the positioning direction of the radiation source; S6, calculating the
elevation angle and the
azimuth angle of the radiation source according to the positioning direction of the radiation source; when the interference positioning is performed, the non-coplanar characteristics of the
antenna array and the increase of the number of antennas can obviously improve the positioning result of the interferometer, and the method can be applied to any irregular array, that is, the
antenna array can be randomly arranged, the coplanar of the
antenna array is not required, and the baselines formed by the antenna array are not required to be orthogonal to each other, so that the installation difficulty of the antenna is effectively reduced.