Spatially Close Signals Separation via Array Aperture Expansions and Spatial Spectrum Averaging
Heung Yong Kang, Young Su Kim, Chang Joo Kim · ETRI Journal · 2004
ABSTRACTA resolution enhancement method for estimating the direction-of-arrival (DOA) of signals is presented.The proposed method is by virtually expanding a real array into virtual arrays and then averaging the spatial spectrum of the virtual arrays, each of which has a different aperture size.Superior DOA resolutions are shown in comparison with the standard algorithm, MUltiple SIgnal Classification (MUSIC), for incoherent signals incident on a uniform circular array.