• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2005

This paper presents a wideband LPA (local polynomial approximation) beamforming algorithm that is appropriate for wideband moving sources. The Proposed wideband LPA algorithm adopts STMV (steered minimum variance) method that utilizes a steered covariance matrix obtained from multiple frequency components in one data snapshot, instead of multiple data snapshots in one frequency bin. The wideband LPA cost function is formed using STMV weight vector. The Proposed algorithm searches for the instantaneous DOA and angular velocity that maximize the wideband LPA cost function. resulting in a higher resolution performance than that of a DS LPA beamforming algorithm. Several simulations using artificial data and sea trial data are used to demonstrate the performance of the Proposed algorithm.