Joint Frequency-Space Sparse Reconstruction for DOA Estimation under Coherent Sources and Amplitude-Phase Errors

Abstract: In this letter, we propose a joint frequency-space sparse reconstruction method for direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation, which effectively addresses the issues arising from the existence of coherent sources and array amplitude-phase errors. Specifically, by using an auxiliary source with known angles, we first construct the real steering vectors (RSVs) based on the spectral peaks of received signals in the frequency domain, which serve as a complete basis matrix for compensation for amplitude-phase errors. Then, we leverage the spectral sparsity of snapshot data in the frequency domain and the spatial sparsity of incident directions to perform the DOA estimation according to the sparse reconstruction method. The proposed method does not require iterative optimization, hence exhibiting low computational complexity. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed DOA estimation method achieves higher estimation accuracy for coherent sources as compared to various benchmark schemes.