Doa estimation by covariance matrix sparse reconstruction of coprime array

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a direction-of-arrival estimation method by covariance matrix sparse reconstruction of coprime array. Specifically, source locations are estimated by solving a newly formulated convex optimization problem, where the difference between the spatially smoothed covariance matrix and the sparsely reconstructed one is minimized. Then, a sliding window scheme is designed for source enumeration. Finally, the power of each source is re-estimated as a least squares problem. Compared with existing methods, the proposed method achieves more accurate source localization and power estimation performance with full utilization of increased degrees of freedom provided by coprime array.