Joint azimuth, elevation, and time of arrival estimation of diffuse sources
In this paper, we estimate the azimuth, the elevation, and the time of arrival of diffuse sources using the covariance matching estimator (COMET) algorithm. Previous works dealt with azimuth estimation of diffuse sources or azimuth and time of arrival estimation of point sources. However, in realistic situations, a tridimensional diffuse source localization is needed, which is the main objective of this paper. We show that the dimensionality of the COMET algorithm can be reduced by separating the estimation of the different source powers and the noise variance from that of the remaining parameters, namely the azimuth, the elevation, the time of arrival, and the corresponding angular and temporal spreads. As COMET still involves a multidimensional nonlinear optimization, we choose, in this purpose, the alternating projection algorithm to alleviate the corresponding complexity. The multiple signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm is processed to initialize the so-resulted algorithm. Simulations of the proposed algorithm are carried in different contexts and compared to the Cramr-Rao Bound, MUSIC algorithm, and dispersed signal parametric estimation simulation results.
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