Closed-form eigenstructure-based direction finding using arbitrary but identical subarrays on a sparse uniform Cartesian array grid

A sparse uniform Cartesian-grid array suffers cyclic ambiguity in its Carte sian direction-cosine estimates due to the spatial Nyquist sampling theorem . The proposed MUSIC-based or MODE-based algorithm improves and generalizes previous disambiguation schemes that populate the thin array grid with ide ntical subarrays-such as electromagnetic vector sensors, under water acoust ic vector hydrophones, or half-wavelength spaced subarrays.