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  • Open Access
12 Citations
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A Sparse-Based Off-Grid DOA Estimation Method for Coprime Arrays

  • Weijian Si,
  • Fuhong Zeng,
  • Changbo Hou and
  • Zhanli Peng

10 September 2018

Recently, many sparse-based direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation methods for coprime arrays have become popular for their excellent detection performance. However, these methods often suffer from grid mismatch problem due to the discretization of th...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,342 Views
13 Pages

First Retrieval of Total Ozone Columns from EMI-2 Using the DOAS Method

  • Yuanyuan Qian,
  • Yuhan Luo,
  • Haijin Zhou,
  • Taiping Yang and ,
  • Liang Xi and
  • Fuqi Si
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 March 2023

The Environmental Trace Gases Monitoring Instrument 2 (EMI-2), a second-generation Chinese hyperspectral satellite-based spectrometer, was launched on 7 September 2021. The total ozone column (TOC) product, which is one of the most important elements...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,244 Views
19 Pages

Research on Automatic Wavelength Calibration of Passive DOAS Observations Based on Sequence Matching Method

  • Jiangyi Zheng,
  • Pinhua Xie,
  • Xin Tian,
  • Jin Xu and ,
  • Min Qin,
  • Feng Hu,
  • Yinsheng Lv,
  • Zhidong Zhang,
  • Qiang Zhang and
  • Wenqing Liu
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

23 April 2024

Passive differential optical absorption spectroscopy (DOAS) is widely used to monitor the three-dimensional distribution of atmospheric pollutants. However, the observational and retrieval accuracy of this technique is significantly influenced by the...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,349 Views
16 Pages

Total Ozone Columns from the Environmental Trace Gases Monitoring Instrument (EMI) Using the DOAS Method

  • Yuanyuan Qian,
  • Yuhan Luo,
  • Fuqi Si,
  • Haijin Zhou and ,
  • Taiping Yang,
  • Dongshang Yang and
  • Liang Xi
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

27 May 2021

Global measurements of total ozone are necessary to evaluate ozone hole recovery above Antarctica. The Environmental Trace Gases Monitoring Instrument (EMI) onboard GaoFen 5, launched in May 2018, was developed to measure and monitor the global total...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
880 Views
15 Pages

22 July 2025

We propose an efficient Nyström-based unitary subspace method for low-complexity two-dimensional (2D) direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation in uniform rectangular array (URA) signal processing systems. The conventional high-resolution DOA estima...

(This article belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,234 Views
29 Pages

5 July 2019

This paper presents an efficient framework for estimating the direction-of-arrival (DOA) of wideband sound sources. The proposed framework provides an efficient way to construct a wideband cross-correlation matrix from multiple narrowband cross-corre...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,771 Views
23 Pages

The Influence of Random Element Displacement on DOA Estimates Obtained with (Khatri–Rao-)Root-MUSIC

  • Veronique Inghelbrecht,
  • Jo Verhaevert,
  • Tanja Van Hecke and
  • Hendrik Rogier

11 November 2014

Although a wide range of direction of arrival (DOA) estimation algorithms has been described for a diverse range of array configurations, no specific stochastic analysis framework has been established to assess the probability density function of the...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,759 Views
12 Pages

7 February 2022

In this paper, we propose a new direction of arrival (DOA) estimation algorithm, in which DOA estimation is achieved by finding the sparsest support set of multiple measurement vectors (MMV) in an over-complete dictionary. The proposed algorithm is b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Signal Processing and Radar for Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
975 Views
13 Pages

6 October 2025

To address the computational efficiency challenges in two-dimensional (2D) direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation, a two-stage framework integrating the Nyström approximation with subspace decomposition techniques is proposed in this paper. The m...

(This article belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,981 Views
15 Pages

The estimation of signal parameters via rotational invariance techniques (ESPRIT) is an algorithm that uses the shift-invariant properties of the array antenna to estimate the direction-of-arrival (DOA) of signals received in the array antenna. Since...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue System-on-Chip (SoC) Design and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,808 Views
27 Pages

Virtual Antenna Array for Minimization of DOA Estimation Systematic Error Caused by Scattering of Incident Waves on Antenna Carrier Body

  • Yuri G. Pasternak,
  • Aleksander V. Ashikhmin,
  • Yuri A. Rembovsky,
  • Sergey M. Fedorov and
  • Dmitry V. Zhuravlev

The Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimations of systematic errors are caused by diffraction distortions of the measured spatial structure of a electromagnetic field. These distortions result from scattering of incident waves on the antenna system and n...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,207 Views
22 Pages

22 May 2019

In this paper, an l 1 -penalized maximum likelihood (ML) approach is developed for estimating the directions of arrival (DOAs) of source signals from the complex elliptically symmetric (CES) array outputs. This approach employs the l 1 ...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,931 Views
19 Pages

1-D and 2-D Direction of Arrival Estimation in a Conical Conformal Array: Design and Implementation

  • Hongyun Zhang,
  • Ping Li,
  • Guangwei Zhang,
  • Guolin Li and
  • Xiaofeng Gao

6 May 2023

Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation for conformal arrays is challenging due to non-omnidirectional element patterns and shadow effects. Conical conformal array (CCA) can avoid the shadow effect at small elevation angles. So CCA is suitable for DOA...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Array Signal Processing with Errors: Models, Algorithms and Applications)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,129 Views
15 Pages

12 April 2017

A novel scheme is proposed for direction finding with uniform rectangular planar array. First, the characteristics of noncircular signals and Euler’s formula are exploited to construct a new real-valued rectangular array data. Then, the rotational in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Array Signal Processing and Its Applications in IoT Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,098 Views
19 Pages

A New Method for Joint Sparse DOA Estimation

  • Jinyong Hou,
  • Changlong Wang,
  • Zixuan Zhao,
  • Feng Zhou and
  • Huaji Zhou

12 November 2024

To tackle the issue of poor accuracy in single-snapshot data processing for Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimation in passive radar systems, this paper introduces a method for judiciously leveraging multi-snapshot data. This approach effectively enhan...

(This article belongs to the Section Radar Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,172 Views
15 Pages

28 July 2022

Affected by various error factors in the actual environment, the accuracy of the direction of arrival (DOA) estimation algorithm will greatly decrease during an application. To address this issue, in this paper, we propose an intelligent DOA estimati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future Information & Communication Engineering 2022)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,721 Views
15 Pages

A Gridless DOA Estimation Method for Sparse Sensor Array

  • Sizhe Gao,
  • Hui Ma,
  • Hongwei Liu,
  • Junxiang Yang and
  • Yang Yang

7 November 2023

Direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is still a pivotal research direction in array signal processing. Traditional algorithms based on the signal subspace and compressed sensing theory usually suffer from off-grid and computational complexity. Deep-...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,983 Views
17 Pages

30 May 2019

In this paper, we propose a novel indoor passive localization approach called eigenspace-based DOA with direct-path recognition (ES-DPR), based on a DOA estimation algorithm with multiple omnidirectional antennas deployed in a uniform linear array (U...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors and Sensing Technologies for Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
70 Citations
7,488 Views
9 Pages

25 August 2016

The problem of direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is investigated for co-prime array, where the co-prime array consists of two uniform sparse linear subarrays with extended inter-element spacing. For each sparse subarray, true DOAs are mapped into...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,287 Views
13 Pages

27 June 2022

Due to the discontinuity of ocean waves and mountains, there are often multipath propagation effects and obvious pulse characteristics in low-altitude detection. If the conventional direction of arrival (DOA) estimation method is directly used for di...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Signal Processing for Next Generation Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,312 Views
14 Pages

An Improved Toeplitz Approximation Method for Coherent DOA Estimation in Impulsive Noise Environments

  • Jiang’an Dai,
  • Tianshuang Qiu,
  • Shengyang Luan,
  • Quan Tian and
  • Jiacheng Zhang

20 June 2023

Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation is an important research topic in array signal processing and widely applied in practical engineering. However, when signal sources are highly correlated or coherent, conventional subspace-based DOA estimation al...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy and Information Theory in Machine Learning: Theoretical Insights and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Views
28 Pages

7 November 2026

Direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation degrades under low signal-to-noise ratio, coherent multipath, and array imperfections. Coherent replicas are especially damaging because they collapse the rank of the signal covariance. We propose ReconUNet, a U-...

(This article belongs to the Section Radar Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,518 Views
18 Pages

A Channelization-Based DOA Estimation Method for Wideband Signals

  • Rui Guo,
  • Yue Zhang,
  • Qianqiang Lin and
  • Zengping Chen

4 July 2016

In this paper, we propose a novel direction of arrival (DOA) estimation method for wideband signals with sensor arrays. The proposed method splits the wideband array output into multiple frequency sub-channels and estimates the signal parameters usin...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,427 Views
13 Pages

DOA-Estimation Method Based on Improved Spatial-Smoothing Technique

  • Yujun Hou,
  • Xuhu Wang,
  • Lei Ding,
  • Xu Jin and
  • Qunfei Zhang

22 December 2023

To improve the data utilization of the sensor array and direction-of-arrival-(DOA)-estimation performance for coherent signals, a DOA-estimation method with a modified spatial-smoothing technique is proposed. The covariance matrix of the received dat...

(This article belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,315 Views
12 Pages

DOA Estimation Method Based on Improved Deep Convolutional Neural Network

  • Fangzheng Zhao,
  • Guoping Hu,
  • Chenghong Zhan and
  • Yule Zhang

9 February 2022

For the multi-target DOA estimation problem of uniform linear arrays, this paper proposes a DOA estimation method based on the deep convolution neural network. The algorithm adopts the deep convolutional neural network, and the DOA estimation problem...

(This article belongs to the Section Radar Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,740 Views
19 Pages

Investigation of Atmospheric Effects on Retrieval of Sun-Induced Fluorescence Using Hyperspectral Imagery

  • Zhuoya Ni,
  • Zhigang Liu,
  • Zhao-Liang Li,
  • Françoise Nerry and ,
  • Hongyuan Huo,
  • Rui Sun,
  • Peiqi Yang and
  • Weiwei Zhang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

6 April 2016

Significant research progress has recently been made in estimating fluorescence in the oxygen absorption bands, however, quantitative retrieval of fluorescence data is still affected by factors such as atmospheric effects. In this paper, top-of-atmos...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,904 Views
16 Pages

CAE-CNN-Based DOA Estimation Method for Low-Elevation-Angle Target

  • Fangzheng Zhao,
  • Guoping Hu,
  • Hao Zhou and
  • Chenghong Zhan

29 December 2022

For the DOA (direction of arrival) estimation of a low-elevation-angle target under the influence of a multipath effect, this paper proposes a DOA estimation method based on CAE (convolutional autoencoder) and CNN (convolutional neural network). The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,857 Views
17 Pages

14 March 2023

This paper proposes a joint estimation method for source number and DOA based on an improved convolutional neural network for unknown source number and undetermined DOA estimation. By analyzing the signal model, the paper designs a convolutional neur...

(This article belongs to the Section Radar Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,883 Views
15 Pages

Grid Reconfiguration Method for Off-Grid DOA Estimation

  • Yun Ling,
  • Huotao Gao,
  • Guobao Ru,
  • Haitao Chen and ,
  • Boya Li and
  • Ting Cao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 October 2019

Off-grid algorithms for direction of arrival (DOA) estimation have become attractive because of their advantages in resolution and efficiency over conventional ones. In this paper, we propose a grid reconfiguration direction of arrival (GRDOA) estima...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Array Antenna and Array Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
384 Views
25 Pages

To reduce the computational burden of conventional spectral search direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation algorithms for acoustic vector sensor arrays (AVSAs), this paper proposes a low-complexity DOA estimation method based on semi-real-valued noise...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Array Signal Processing: Methods and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,759 Views
17 Pages

The direction of arrival (DOA) estimation problem as an essential problem in the radar system is important in radar applications. In this paper, considering a multiple-input and multiple-out (MIMO) radar system, the DOA estimation problem is investig...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Array Antenna and Array Signal Processing)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,987 Views
17 Pages

Coherent Signal DOA Estimation Method Based on Space–Time–Coding Metasurface

  • Guanchao Chen,
  • Xiaolong Su,
  • Lida He,
  • Dongfang Guan and
  • Zhen Liu

9 January 2025

A novel method for the direction of arrival (DOA) estimation of coherent signals under a space–time–coding metasurface (STCM) is proposed in this paper. Noticeably, the STCM can replace multi-channel arrays with a single channel, which ca...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Array and Signal Processing for Radar)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,175 Views
16 Pages

24 August 2023

In this paper, a novel two-dimensional direction of arrival (2D-DOA) estimation method with total variation regularization is proposed to deal with the problem of sparse DOA estimation for spatially extended sources. In a general sparse framework, th...

(This article belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,265 Views
17 Pages

31 January 2025

In the field of direction of arrival (DOA) estimation, a common assumption is that array noise follows a uniform Gaussian white noise model. However, practical systems often encounter non-ideal noise conditions, such as non-uniform or colored noise,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,408 Views
16 Pages

DOA Estimation Method for Vector Hydrophones Based on Sparse Bayesian Learning

  • Hongyan Wang,
  • Yanping Bai,
  • Jing Ren,
  • Peng Wang and ,
  • Ting Xu,
  • Wendong Zhang and
  • Guojun Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

4 October 2024

Through extensive literature review, it has been found that sparse Bayesian learning (SBL) is mainly applied to traditional scalar hydrophones and is rarely applied to vector hydrophones. This article proposes a direction of arrival (DOA) estimation...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,033 Views
22 Pages

Beamspace Spatial Smoothing MUSIC DOA Estimation Method Using Dynamic Metasurface Antenna

  • Lilong Hou,
  • Liang Jin,
  • Kaizhi Huang,
  • Shuaifang Xiao and ,
  • Yangming Lou and
  • Yajun Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 March 2025

The Direction-of-Arrival (DOA) estimation method using traditional array antennas cannot dynamically adjust the observation angle range based on the Region of Interest (ROI), which leads to limited estimation accuracy and high computational complexit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wireless Communications: Signal Processing Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
4,861 Views
16 Pages

17 April 2020

Estimating directions of arrival (DOA) without knowledge of the source number is regarded as a challenging task, particularly when coherence among sources exists. Researchers have trained deep learning (DL)-based models to attack the problem of DOA e...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,157 Views
21 Pages

9 October 2024

Gridless direction of arrival (DOA) estimation methods have garnered significant attention due to their ability to avoid grid mismatch errors, which can adversely affect the performance of high-resolution DOA estimation algorithms. However, most exis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ocean Remote Sensing Based on Radar, Sonar and Optical Techniques)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,600 Views
26 Pages

In practical array signal processing applications, direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation often suffers from degraded accuracy under low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and limited snapshot conditions. To address these challenges, we propose an off-grid D...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integrated Sensing and Communications for 6G)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,777 Views
20 Pages

7 September 2025

This paper focuses on two-dimensional (2-D) direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation for an L-shaped array. While recent studies have explored sparse methods for this problem, most exploit only the cross-correlation matrix, neglecting self-correlation i...

(This article belongs to the Section Radar Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
575 Views
39 Pages

A Robust CS-DOA Method for Multi-UAV-Assisted Agricultural Vehicle Localization in Smart Tillage

  • Jingyao Zhang,
  • Ningning Ma,
  • Heyang Li,
  • Yancong Wang and ,
  • Xiaobo Zhang,
  • Zaiwang Lu,
  • Lei Li,
  • Haihua Chen and
  • Yucheng Zhang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

25 August 2026

The advancement of precision agriculture and smart tillage relies on high-precision, real-time perception of unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) positions. In large-scale farmland operations, conventional Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-based pos...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Autonomous Navigation Systems for UAVs)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,006 Views
21 Pages

31 January 2023

Aiming at the existing Direction of Arrival (DOA) methods based on neural network, a large number of samples are required to achieve signal-scene adaptation and accurate angle estimation. In the coherent signal environment, the problems of a larger a...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,845 Views
17 Pages

23 April 2022

Acoustic source localization in the spherical harmonic domain with reverberation has hitherto not been extensively investigated. Moreover, deep learning frameworks have been utilized to estimate the direction-of-arrival (DOA) with spherical microphon...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,602 Views
9 Pages

30 December 2019

The direction-of-arrivals (DOA) estimation with an unfolded coprime linear array (UCLA) has been investigated because of its large aperture and full degrees of freedom (DOFs). The existing method suffers from low resolution and high computational com...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,025 Views
20 Pages

23 July 2025

Effective fault feature extraction and classification methods serve as the foundation for achieving the efficient fault diagnosis of planetary gearboxes. Considering the vibration signals of planetary gearboxes that contain both symmetrical and asymm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Fault Detection and Diagnosis for Dynamic Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
721 Views
23 Pages

27 December 2025

Utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to achieve accurate direction finding of radiation sources in hazardous and complex regions is an important means of information recon- naissance. However, the significant multipath effects of UAVs in complex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,246 Views
19 Pages

An ADMM-qSPICE-Based Sparse DOA Estimation Method for MIMO Radar

  • Yongwei Zhang,
  • Yongchao Zhang,
  • Jiawei Luo,
  • Yulin Huang and ,
  • Jianan Yan,
  • Yin Zhang and
  • Jianyu Yang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

11 January 2023

In recent years, sparse direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar has attracted extensive attention and been extensively studied, especially the method based on the classic least absolute shrinkage and sele...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theory and Applications of MIMO Radar)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,145 Views
25 Pages

Direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation of electromagnetic (EM) waves impinging on a spherical antenna array in short time windows is examined in this paper. Reflected EM signals due to non-line-of-sight propagation measured with a spherical antenna ar...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,696 Views
13 Pages

20 May 2017

This paper proposes a low-complexity method to estimate the direction of arrival and polarization based on the polarization sensitive array (PSA) which is composed of cross-dipoles. We built a half-quaternions model through the Cayley–Dickson form to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Array Signal Processing and Its Applications in IoT Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,902 Views
14 Pages

16 October 2023

The Toeplitz matrix reconstruction methods are capable of resolving coherent signals, playing a crucial role in the direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation of acoustic sources. However, the decoherence processing sacrifices the array aperture and furth...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Computer Vision and Multimedia Information Processing)

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