A Single-Step Method for Over-the-Horizon Geolocation Using Importance Sampling

Jiexin Yin, Ding Wang, Bin Yang and Xin Yang

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2021, vol. 2021, 1-10

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This paper investigates the geolocation for an over-the-horizon (OTH) transmitter observed by widely separated arrays. We propose a maximum likelihood (ML) based direct position determination (DPD) method to directly locate the transmitter in a single step by exploiting the position information embedded in azimuth angles. The Monte Carlo importance sampling (IS) technique is employed to find an approximate global solution to this DPD problem, where the importance function analogous to Gaussian distribution is derived. This enables the transmitter to be precisely located with low complexity in a noniterative manner. Additionally, we derive the Cramér–Rao bound (CRB) expression for the investigated problem. The simulation results corroborate the superior localization performance of the proposed method with respect to the conventional two-step approaches and the iterative DPD method.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1155/2021/5574110

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