THE FOURTH-ORDER CUMULANTS BASED SPECTRALESTIMATION METHOD AND ITS APPLICATIONTO DIRECTION-FINDING

Traditional approaches of spatial spectral estimation are usually based on the second-order statistics. The higher-order cumulants and the poly-spectrum contain more information and are capable of reducing the Gaussian noise. In this paper, we present a new spectrum estimation method for direction-finding, the FOMUSIC algorithm, which is based on the eigen-structure analysis of the fourth-order cumulants. The derivation of the algorithm is given in detail and its performance is illustrated by both the computer simulations and the experiments of a direction-finding system. The obtained results demonstrate that the fourth-order cumulants based method outperforms the traditional methods, especially when the noise is an unknown colored one.

DEVELOPMENT OF FAST TWO-DIMENSIONAL HIGH-RESOLUTION DIRECTION-FINDING TECHNIQUES

A fast separable approach based on a cross array is presented, which has coarsegrained parallelism. Its computational load is far less than that of the two-dimensional (2-D) direct processing method and other existing separable approaches. In order to compensate for the performance degradation due to separable processing, two postprocessing schemes are also proposed. Some computer simulation results are provided for illustration in the end.

An angular blinking jamming method based on electronically controlled corner reflectors

Passive jamming is believed to have very good potential in countermeasure community.In this paper,a passive angular blinking jamming method based on electronically controlled corner reflectors is proposed.The amplitude of the incident wave can be modulated by switching the corner reflector between the penetration state and the reflection state,and the ensemble of multiple corner reflectors with towing rope can result in complex angle decoying effects.Dependency of the decoying effect on corner reflectors’radar cross section and positions are analyzed and simulated.Results show that the angle measured by a monopulse radar can be significantly interfered by this method while the automatic tracking is employed.

Extraction of Alpha transmitter signals from single-station observations using the direction-finding method

For the applications of Alpha very-low-frequency(VLF) systems consisting of multiple transmitters, determining the origin transmitter station of received signals is a crucial problem. Based on single-station observations, this study develops a directionfinding method to extract Russian Alpha transmitter signals. First, the amplitudes of Alpha signals received in Suizhou City,Hubei Province(31.57°N, 113.32°E) in the east-west(EW) and north-south(NS) directions are obtained by the power spectrum method. The amplitude ratios of signals in the two directions are subsequently adopted to estimate the propagation angles of the signals with respect to the NS direction of the VLF receiver station. Phase ambiguity in our system is eliminated by comparing Alpha signal waveform with that from the VTX transmitter in India(8.39°N, 77.75°E) as a reference station. Finally, we can determine the quadrant where the incoming wave signals are located relative to the receiver and eventually distinguish the exact Alpha transmitters. Based on the direction-finding results, the amplitudes of each Alpha signal are extracted, and their diurnal variation features are analyzed to verify the performance of our method. These results are of great significance for the further study of Alpha signals and VLF long-distance communication.