Method to Estimate and Promote SNR of Covariance Matrix in Array Signal Processing
Yi Ran Shi, Yan Tao Tian, Hong Wei Shi, Lan Xiang Zhu · Applied Mechanics and Materials · 2013
Estimation for direction of arrival (DOA) is an important work in array signal processing, and subspace method such as MUSIC algorithm is basic and important in DOA estimation. This paper analyzes the structure of eigen value of variance matrix, and proposes a method to estimate the signal noise ratio (SNR) of the data received by sensor array. With the accurate estimation for SNR, we can estimate the work environment and decide detect threshold for many algorithm. The paper also proposes a method to promote the SNR of covariance matrix with moving the covariance slice to do DOA estimation. It can efficiently widen the difference of signal eigen value and noise eigen value.