Direction-of-arrival estimation in unknown correlated noise using MUSIC and higher order statistics
Hsien‐Sen Hung, Keshi Chen · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1994
In this paper we consider the direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation of Gaussian signals in non- Gaussian noise of unknown spatial correlations. The proposed method involves two primary steps. Firstly, the third-order cumulant function of the random wavefield received by an array of sensors is estimated and then projected onto the correlation domain to exploit the correlations of noise across the sensors in an array. Secondly, the estimated noise correlation matrix is then utilized in a correlation-based eigenstructure method, such as MUSIC, for DOA estimation. As expected, the proposed method improves the performance of MUSIC which requires the knowledge of noise correlation. Numerical simulation results for both the MUSIC and proposed algorithms are presented and compared.