An L-Shaped Array with Nonorthogonal Axes-Its Cramér-Rao Bound for Direction Finding

Dominic Makaa Kitavi; Kainam Thomas Wong; Chun Chiu Hung

doi:10.1109/TAES.2017.2741298

An L-Shaped Array with Nonorthogonal Axes-Its Cramér-Rao Bound for Direction Finding

Dominic Makaa Kitavi, Kainam Thomas Wong, Chun Chiu Hung

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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Abstract

If a nominally L-shaped sensor-array's two legs are not exactly perpendicular, its azimuth-polar direction-of-arrival estimation would be degraded. This paper quantifies this degradation via a deterministic Cramér-Rao bound analysis of the direction-finding error variance.

Original language	English
Article number	8012415
Pages (from-to)	486-492
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Volume	54
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TAES.2017.2741298
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2018

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