Wideband spatial processing with wavelet transforms

Abstract

For a nearfield sensor array, wideband signals, and moving scatterers or sensors, beamforming may not be valid. The signals received at different sensors may no longer be delayed versions of one another. To localize wideband, nearfield, and/or moving sources, a wideband spatial processor is presented. Applicable to both active and passive processing, it relies on a new relation that expresses the wideband correlation receiver output as an affine convolution of two wavelet transforms; the wideband spreading function is convolved with an auto ambiguity function. This new expression is then deconvolved to obtain a high resolution estimate of the wideband spreading function.<>