DOA estimation for beam scanning radar based on sparse signal reconstruction with incomplete pulse

Direction of Arrival (DOA) is one of the commonly used measurement for source localization. However, the receiving equipment of modern electronic reconnaissance can not completely intercept the pulse signal in the complex and dense electromagnetic environment. Thus, it is not easy to accurately estimate its DOA, especially in the case of multiple targets. In order to solve this problem, we propose a sparse super-resolution DOA method to achieve DOA estimation incomplete pulse. Combined with compressed sensing theory, the complex DOA estimation problem is transformed into Basis Pursuit (BP) method based on the minimum ℓ1 norm optimization criterion. The method estimates the DOA by solving the optimal sparse vector that constitutes the signal and can detect multiple targets in the same range-azimuth unit. In addition, compared with the traditional direction-finding method using the BP method, our method can guarantee the performance of direction-finding while reducing the requirement of pulse integrity. The simulation results support the theoretical analysis.