Direction-of-arrival and Range Estimation of Wideband Sources in the Near Field

In this letter, we address the problem of wideband sources localization in the near field of the sensor array. It is shown that the spatial sampling rate can be considered as a function of temporal frequency so that wideband sources can be represented in the spatial frequency domain. A computationally efficient localization method is then developed based on the Toeplitz matrices constructed from the frequency-dependent cross-correlation between sensors. This allows us to resolve near field sources with quite a few numbers of sensors. Indeed, the sources can be located with fewer sensors. Finally, the simulation results are presented to validate the performance of the proposed method.