An integrated method of acoustic signal detection and direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is proposed.As exploiting the beam-spectra envelop (BE) knowledge of the spatial spectrum outputted by beam scanning system
it is named as BE method
in which
based on the results of energy detection
the 3dB-width information of spectral peaks is used further to detect the source number in each peak
and the DOAs are estimated by 2-D Capon searching.The Qiandao Lake experimental results show that
comparing with traditional algorithms
the performance of target detection and DOA estimation is improved at lower SNRs.