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Direction of Arrival Estimation of Unknown Number of Wideband Signals in Unattended Ground Sensor Networks

Mathai, George ; Jakobsson, Andreas LU orcid and Gustafsson, Fredrik (2013) 16th International Conference on Information Fusion, 2013 p.685-690
Abstract
Unattended Ground Sensor Networks (UGSN) are becoming increasingly popular for surveillance and situational awareness applications. Acoustic sensors can be used in UGSN to detect and to classify targets, and these sensors are cost efficient, easy to deploy, and above all, non-jammable since they are passive. An array of acoustic sensors can detect multiple sound sources and determine the direction of arrival (DOA), and the network can deal with the multi-sensor multi-target tracking. This contribution focuses on DOA estimation of wideband sources, such as vehicles. We develop a coherent DOA estimation method by taking advantage of the spatial sparsity of the wideband acoustic sources as a prior information, as an extension to the recently... (More)
Unattended Ground Sensor Networks (UGSN) are becoming increasingly popular for surveillance and situational awareness applications. Acoustic sensors can be used in UGSN to detect and to classify targets, and these sensors are cost efficient, easy to deploy, and above all, non-jammable since they are passive. An array of acoustic sensors can detect multiple sound sources and determine the direction of arrival (DOA), and the network can deal with the multi-sensor multi-target tracking. This contribution focuses on DOA estimation of wideband sources, such as vehicles. We develop a coherent DOA estimation method by taking advantage of the spatial sparsity of the wideband acoustic sources as a prior information, as an extension to the recently proposed SPICE method for narrowband sources. The method has been tested on both simulated data and field test data with different vehicles with very good performance compared to other state of the art methods. (Less)
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Sensor networks, target tracking, direction of arrival, estimation, acoustic sensors
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Information Fusion (FUSION), 2013 16th International Conference on
pages
6 pages
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IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
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16th International Conference on Information Fusion, 2013
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Istanbul, Turkey
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2013-07-09 - 2013-07-12
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English
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  abstract     = {{Unattended Ground Sensor Networks (UGSN) are becoming increasingly popular for surveillance and situational awareness applications. Acoustic sensors can be used in UGSN to detect and to classify targets, and these sensors are cost efficient, easy to deploy, and above all, non-jammable since they are passive. An array of acoustic sensors can detect multiple sound sources and determine the direction of arrival (DOA), and the network can deal with the multi-sensor multi-target tracking. This contribution focuses on DOA estimation of wideband sources, such as vehicles. We develop a coherent DOA estimation method by taking advantage of the spatial sparsity of the wideband acoustic sources as a prior information, as an extension to the recently proposed SPICE method for narrowband sources. The method has been tested on both simulated data and field test data with different vehicles with very good performance compared to other state of the art methods.}},
  author       = {{Mathai, George and Jakobsson, Andreas and Gustafsson, Fredrik}},
  booktitle    = {{Information Fusion (FUSION), 2013 16th International Conference on}},
  keywords     = {{Sensor networks; target tracking; direction of arrival; estimation; acoustic sensors}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{685--690}},
  publisher    = {{IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.}},
  title        = {{Direction of Arrival Estimation of Unknown Number of Wideband Signals in Unattended Ground Sensor Networks}},
  url          = {{http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/searchresult.jsp?newsearch=true&queryText=Direction+of+Arrival+Estimation+of+Unknown+Number+of+Wideband+Signals+in+Unattended+Ground+Sensor+Networks&x=52&y=11}},
  year         = {{2013}},
}