Identifiability in array processing models with vector-sensorapplications

  • Authors:
  • B. Hochwald;A. Nehorai

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. Eng., Yale Univ., New Haven, CT;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

We present a bound on the number of sources identifiable in a class of array processing models with multiple parameters and signals per source. The bound is applied to determine the maximum number of uniquely resolvable plane-wave sources in various acoustic and electromagnetic vector-sensor models. We examine the use of a priori information about the sources, the effects of known and unknown noise characteristics, and the presence of nuisance parameters. Connections between identifiability and existence of the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) are investigated. We show quantitatively how assumptions about the parameters can fundamentally affect the maximum number of identifiable sources