DOA estimation of mixed coherent and uncorrelated targets exploiting coprime MIMO radar

We propose a new scheme to estimate the directions-of-arrival (DOAs) of mixed coherent and uncorrelated targets exploiting a collocated multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar with transmit/receive coprime arrays. In the proposed scheme, the DOAs of the uncorrelated targets are first estimated using subspace-based methods, whereas those of the coherent targets are resolved using Bayesian compressive sensing. Compared with the previous works, the proposed approach achieves improved DOA estimation accuracy with a flexible coprime array configuration and may resolve more targets than the number of coarray elements. Theoretical analysis and simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed technique.

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