A class of Markov Monte Carlo methods is explored to reduce the heavy computation load of the maximum likelihood parameter estimation method for passive synthetic arrays(pasaML). The method combines the perfect sampling technique with the pasaML method to form a frequency-azimuth joint estimation method(called PS-pasaML)to estimate the frequencies and directions of multiple sources at the same time
The power of the pasaML spectrum function is regarded as the target distribution of azimuths and frequency
and an updating function with monotone property is constructed and proved. Then the initial azimuth vectors of two Markov chains are produced and the updating function is used to determine the transfer directions of the Markov chains in the state space. The computational speed is accelerated by switching the sampling process between the global state space and local state spaces. The stationary of the Markov process is judged by the coalescence time
and the expectation of the stationary yields the final estimation of the target azimuths. Simulation results show that when the source number is small
the proposed method
retains the high-resolution performance of the pasaML method
and the computational complexity is only 1/7 of the pasaML method.
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