简介：Theproblemofbearingestimationofcoherentsignalimpingiogonanarrayofarbitrarygeometryisstudied.Bothapproachesaredeveloped,thefirstonesynthesizestheobservedarraydataintotheoutputsofalinearuniformarrayandthenprocessesthemviaconventionaltechniquessuchasspatialsmoothingetc.Thesecondapproachisbasedontheinvariantsubspacerotationoperationwhichisequivalenttothetranslationaldisplacementoftheartay,linearlyindependentsignalvectorsareobtainedtherebytospanperfectlythesignalsubspace.Ascomparedwiththeconventionalprocessingtechniques,theapproachbasedoninvariantsubspacerotationdoesnotleadtoaneffectivedecreaseinaperturesizeandthereforeadecreaseinresolutioncapability.Thecomputersimulationsareconductedtodemonstratetheeffectivenessofthepresentedapproaches.