The invention relates to a two-dimensional DOA and polarization parameter
estimation method based on a
polarization sensitive parallel array. The method comprises the following steps: determining parameters of the
polarization sensitive parallel array according to the total number of array elements; designing a separated
polarization sensitive sparse array according to the polarization sensitive
parallel array parameters determined in the step 1; based on the separated polarization sensitive
sparse array, a virtual area array is deduced by combining the motion of the array along the normal direction of the array; on the basis of the obtained virtual area array, the degree of freedom of the virtual area array in a differential common array domain of a space domain-polarization domain is solved; and based on the virtual area array, deducing a multi-dimensional parameter
estimation algorithm based on ESPRIT according to a
virtual array structure, taking the solved degree of freedom as an upper limit of a maximum estimable
signal source number of the parameter
estimation algorithm, and obtaining two-dimensional DOA and polarization parameter estimation of each
signal by using the parameter estimation
algorithm. Compared with the prior art, the array has the characteristics of low mutual
coupling, high degree of freedom and
large aperture, and the parameter estimation method has the advantages of
low complexity, automatic parameter matching and the like.