Passive emitter direction finding using a single antenna and compressed sensing

Abstract

Using recent advances exploiting compressed sensing (CS) theory for radio frequency emitter localization a simple one antenna direction finder has been constructed in order to develop and evaluate theses methods. A series of experiments has been conducted whose results are presented in this paper. Furthermore, the parametrization of the algorithm is analyzed and evaluated. The experiments confirm that CS techniques enhance the accuracy of bearing measurements compared to other methods while at the same time the overall hardware system can be kept simple.