The synchrosqueezing method in bearing estimation of stationary signals for passive sonar with towed array

In this paper a novel method of the bearing estimation in a passive sonar system with a towed array is introduced. The classical approach of the bearing estimation based on the spatial spectrum is extended by using the synchrosqeezing method that is a part of the reassignment method introduced by Kodera et al. The usage of this method leads to the precise bearing estimation. The proposed method requires a relatively small amount of computation, because of possibility of using the FFT algorithm. Moreover, method immunity against AWGN is tested for a selected sonar array having regard to the direction of arrival and the signal frequency.