Abstract:To reduce the computational complexity of the twodimensional direction of arrival (DOA) with planar array, this paper proposes a semirealvalued MUSIC algorithm. The paper transforms one of the DOA estimation into an estimation of the angles between the target andx axis andy axis. Firstly, the real part of the received signal covariance matrix is extracted and performed an eigendecomposition to obtain the noise subspace. Then, the dimension of the process is reduced to achieve one dimension semirealvalued MUSIC spectrum. Next, the paper evaluates the estimation of the angle between the incident direction and thex axis. After that the paper utilizes the leastsquare method for getting an estimation of the angle between the target andy axis. Finally according to the corresponding relationship between azimuth and elevation and the two angles, the twodimensional DOA estimate is evaluated. This algorithm has the similar estimation performance with traditional MUSIC algorithm, significantly reducing computation complexity. The simulation results show that the algorithm is valid.