DOA Estimation for Noncircular Signals under Strong Impulsive Noise

Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation under impulsive noise has been an important research area. Most present methods are based on the fractional lower order statistics, while the computation load is heavy, and the estimation property degrades when the noise impact is strong. To get around this conundrum, a novel solution is presented, where the noncircular signals are introduced for modelling, a filtering preprocessing method is introduced to eliminate the impulsive noise, and a matrix reconstruction method is presented to smooth the residual noise. Firstly, the filtering preprocessing method is implemented to cut out the impulsive noise. Secondly, the characteristic of the noncircular signal is utilized to extend the array aperture. Thirdly, a new matrix reconstruction method is proposed to smooth the residual noise. Finally, the classical ESPRIT algorithm is adopted to estimate the DOAs. Simulations under different comparison of dimensions are conducted, and the mainstream methods are selected as comparison. The simulation results illustrate the outstanding performance of the proposed method in a strong impulsive noise environment.