Performance improvement for wideband DOA estimation with white noise reduction based on uniform linear arrays

Abstract

A method is proposed for reducing the effect of white noise in wideband uniform linear arrays via a combination of a judiciously designed transformation followed by highpass filters. The reduced noise level leads to a higher signal to noise ratio for the system, which can have a significant effect on the performance of various direction of arrival (DOA) estimation methods. As a representative example, the compressive sensing-based wideband DOA estimation method is employed here to demonstrate the improved estimation performance, this is confirmed by simulation results.