The Application of Matrix Pencil Method for Direction Finding Using a Linear Antenna Array

The estimation of the direction of signal sources is used especially in military applications such as radar systems, locating systems, military warfare systems, and in civil applications such as mobile communication systems. The systems that used to only determine the location of a single signal source have obtained the ability to simultaneously detect the direction and location of signals from multiple signal sources following the development of subspace techniques. Matrix Pencil method is a method used in subspace analysis of the signal, in this study, it is aimed to estimate the direction of arrival of the signals impinging from one or more signal sources to the antenna array using this method. The analysis showed that high accuracy results have been obtained in the estimation of the direction of arrival the signals impinging to the antenna array by Matrix Pencil method.