Direction of Arrival and the Rank-Revealing URV Decomposition

Abstract

In many practical direction-of-arrival (DOA) problems the number of sources and their directions from an antenna array do not remain stationary. Hence a practical DOA algorithm must be able to track changes with a minimal number of snapshots. In this paper we describe DOA algorithms, based on a new decomposition, that are not expensive to compute or difficult to update. The algorithms are compared with algorithms based on the singular value decomposition (SVD). (Also cross-referenced as UMIACS-TR-91-166)