Research Article

Central DOA Estimation Method for Exponential-Type Coherent Distributed Source Based on Fourth-Order Cumulant

Table 1

Key notations and explanations.

NotationsExplanation

Conjugate of matrix
Transpose of matrix
Conjugate transpose of the matrix
Statistical expectation operator
Diagonalization operation
-th entry of a matrix
Matrix trace
Kornecker product
Set of the locations of physical elements
Set of the locations of virtual elements
Phase acquired operation
Matrix column vectorization