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First, by virtue of a first-order Taylor expansion for array manifold vectors of parallel linear arrays, the received signal of arrays can be reconstructed by the products of generalized manifold matrices and extended signal vectors. Then, the rotating invariant relations concerning the nominal elevation and azimuth are derived. According to the rotating invariant relationships, the rotating operators are obtained through the subspace of the covariance matrix of the received vectors. Last, the angle matching approach and angular spreads are explored based on the Capon principle. The proposed method for estimating the DOA of 2D ID sources does not require a spectral search and prior knowledge of the angular power density function. The proposed DOA estimation has a significant advantage in terms of computational cost. Investigating the influence of experimental conditions and angular spreads on estimation, numerical simulations are carried out to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method. The experimental results show that the algorithm proposed in this paper has advantages in terms of estimation accuracy, with a similar number of sensors and the same experimental conditions when compared with existing methods, and that it shows a robustness in cases of model mismatch.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20164562","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,14]],"date-time":"2020-08-14T08:28:35Z","timestamp":1597393715000},"page":"4562","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Parameter Estimation for Two-Dimensional Incoherently Distributed Source with Double Cross Arrays"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"Tao","family":"Wu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Equipment Management and UAV College, Air Force Engineering University, Xi\u2019an 710051, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yiwen","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Aeronautical Engineering College, Air Force Engineering University, Xi\u2019an 710051, China"},{"name":"Science and Technology on Combustion, Thermal-Structure and Internal Flow Laboratory, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi\u2019an 710051, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhenghong","family":"Deng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi\u2019an 710072, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Bo","family":"Feng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Equipment Management and UAV College, Air Force Engineering University, Xi\u2019an 710051, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xinping","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Resources, Environment and History and Culture, Xianyang Normal University, Xianyang 712000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"146","DOI":"10.1016\/j.sigpro.2017.09.001","article-title":"Performance analysis of distributed source parameter estimator (DSPE) in the presence of modeling errors due to the spatial distributions of sources","volume":"143","author":"Xiong","year":"2018","journal-title":"Signal Process."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"181","DOI":"10.1016\/S0165-1684(97)00218-1","article-title":"Downlink beamforming for spatially distributed sources in cellular mobile communications","volume":"65","author":"Goldberg","year":"1998","journal-title":"Signal Process."},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"297","DOI":"10.1109\/7.826333","article-title":"Observation of extended targets with antenna arrays","volume":"36","author":"Monakov","year":"2000","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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