The wide-band coherent signal-subspace processing based on propagator method

The narrow band propagator method is introduced to the wide-band coherent signal-subspace processing in the direction finding problem. A new technique that needs no direction pre-estimation or matrix decomposition is presented to compute the focusing matrices, so the focusing matrices are robust and the computation,is simple. Then, the propagator method is extended to the focused covariance matrix to find the directions of the sources. The whole estimation process avoids the rather expensive matrix decomposition, and the results of simulations proved the effectiveness of the new method.