Signal-selective time-difference-of-arrival estimation for passivelocation of man-made signal sources in highly corruptive environments.I. Theory and method

  • Authors:
  • W.A. Gardner;C.-K. Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Davis, CA;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

For the problem of estimating time difference of arrival (TDOA) of radio waves impinging on a pair of antennas for the purpose of passively locating the source of a communications or telemetry signal in the presence of interfering signals and noise, a new class of signal-selective algorithms that are highly tolerant to interference and noise is introduced. Unlike conventional methods, the new methods cross correlate frequency-shifted as well as time-shifted versions of the received data in order to exploit the unique cyclostationarity property of the signal of interest