Frequency estimation of the sinusoidal signals with unknown lowpass envelopes based on the eigenanalysis

In this paper, the frequency estimation of the sinusoidal signals with unknown lowpass envelope is addressed. Due to mismodeling, the performance of the conventional subspace-based method degrades significantly in these cases. By developing the method applied to the parametric localization of distributed sources, an eigenanalysis-based method is proposed for the frequency estimate. The comparisons of the proposed method and the nonlinear least-squares (NLS) approach with each other as well as the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB), are presented. The simulations illustrate the good performance in the precision and super-resolution.