RESOLUTION OF COHERENT SOURCES BY USING SPATIAL SMOOTHING TECHNIQUE IN POWER INVERSION ARRAYS WITH RANDOM AMPLITUDE AND PHASE ERRORS

The variances of the complex response zeros of a linear equally spaced power inversion array employing spatial smoothing to locate coherent sources are investigated with respect to random amplitude and phase er rors. Specifically, after expressing the variances in terms of the ide al zero positions, a simple guideline, 2M-3(sigma(a)2 +sigma(p)2(p(T)/ p(n)) giving the variance as a function of the ratio of individual sou rce power p(n) to the combined source power p(T), the number of elemen ts 2M, the amplitude variance sigma(a)2 and phase variance sigma(p)2, is derived. Some simulation results are then presented to demonstrate the validity and usefulness of the theoretical results.