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This paper focuses on the coherent targets issue in EVS-MIMO radar, and a spatial smoothing estimator is developed to estimate the multiple parameters. It first recovers the rank of the array data via forward spatial smoothing. Then, it estimates the elevation angles via the rotational invariance technique. Combined with the vector cross-product method, the azimuth angles are obtained. Thereafter, with the previously achieved direction angles, the polarized parameters are acquired by using the least squares technique. Unlike the existing polarization smoothing techniques, the proposed estimator is able to estimate the two-dimensional direction parameter. Furthermore, it can provide a polarized parameter of the target. In addition, the proposed estimator is computationally efficient, since it offers closed-form and automatically paired solutions to all the parameters. Numerical experiments are carried out to show its superiority and effectiveness.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14174331","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,2]],"date-time":"2022-09-02T00:19:01Z","timestamp":1662077941000},"page":"4331","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Coherent Targets Parameter Estimation for EVS-MIMO Radar"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Xueke","family":"Ding","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China"}]},{"given":"Ying","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Tongfang Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., Jiujiang 332099, China"}]},{"given":"Changming","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Tongfang Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., Jiujiang 332099, China"}]},{"given":"Qun","family":"Wan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Fisher, E., Haimovich, A., Blum, R., Ciminio, L., and Chizhik, D. 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