A decoupled algorithm for geolocation of multiple emitters
Signal Processing
Direct position determination of multiple radio signals
EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
Blind mobile positioning in urban environment based on ray-tracing analysis
EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
Self-organization of unattended wireless acoustic sensor networks for ground target tracking
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Acoustic sensor-based multiple object tracking with visual information association
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
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Multiple sensor arrays provide the means for highly accurate localization of the (x,y) position of a source. In some applications, such as microphone arrays receiving aeroacoustic signals from ground vehicles, random fluctuations in the air lead to frequency-selective coherence losses in the signals that arrive at widely separated sensors. We present performance analysis for localization of a wideband source using multiple, distributed sensor arrays. The wavefronts are modeled with perfect spatial coherence over individual arrays and frequency-selective coherence between distinct arrays, and the sensor signals are modeled as wideband, Gaussian random processes. Analysis of the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) on source localization accuracy reveals that a distributed processing scheme involving bearing estimation at the individual arrays and time-delay estimation (TDE) between sensors on different arrays performs nearly as well as the optimum scheme while requiring less communication bandwidth with a central processing node. We develop Ziv-Zakai bounds for TDE with partially coherent signals in order to study the achievability of the CRB. This analysis shows that a threshold value of coherence is required in order to achieve accurate time-delay estimates, and the threshold coherence value depends on the source signal bandwidth, the additive noise level, and the observation time. Results are included based on processing measured aeroacoustic data from ground vehicles to illustrate the frequency-dependent signal coherence and the TDE performance.