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To address this problem, an off-grid DOA estimation method for monostatic MIMO radar is proposed to deal with non-circular signals under impulsive noise. In the proposed method, firstly, based on the property of non-circular signal and array structure, a virtual array output was built and a real-valued sparse representation for the signal model was constructed. Then, an off-grid sparse Bayesian learning (SBL) framework is proposed and further applied to the virtual array to construct novel off-grid sparse model. Finally, off-grid DOA estimation was realized through the solution of the sparse reconstruction with high accuracy even in impulsive noise. Numerous simulations were performed to compare the algorithm with existing methods. Simulation results verify that the proposed off-grid DOA method enables evident performance improvement in terms of accuracy and robustness compared with other works on impulsive noise.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22166268","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,22]],"date-time":"2022-08-22T01:56:40Z","timestamp":1661133400000},"page":"6268","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Off-Grid DOA Estimation Using Sparse Bayesian Learning for MIMO Radar under Impulsive Noise"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9244-0035","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jitong","family":"Ma","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Science and Technology, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China"},{"name":"Department of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China"}]},{"given":"Jiacheng","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"},{"name":"Department of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China"}]},{"given":"Zhengyan","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Transportation Engineering, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China"}]},{"given":"Tianshuang","family":"Qiu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3916","DOI":"10.1109\/TVT.2020.2970967","article-title":"Low-Complexity Channel Estimation for Circular and NoncircularSignals in Virtual MIMO Vehicle Communication Systems","volume":"69","author":"Wang","year":"2020","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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