Wideband DOA estimation with deficient snapshots using low rank Toeplitz structure

In array signal processing, most existing direction‐of‐arrival (DOA) estimation methods fail to work given deficient snapshots. To solve this problem, this Letter proposes a novel wideband DOA estimation technique by utilising the sparse representation in terms of the low rank Toeplitz structure presented in uniform array geometries, followed by an enhanced MUSIC method. Specifically, each sub‐band segment is first focused into the reference frequency band to collect the coherent covariance matrix even in the lack of sufficient samples. Then, the covariance matrix is denoised through a structure‐based sparse reconstruction, which exploits the low rank Toeplitz structure. Finally, the DOAs is efficiently estimated via an enhanced MUSIC method. Simulation result confirms the efficacy of the proposed method that works well in MIMO and radar applications.