Radiowave monitoring device

A radio wave monitoring device, comprising:

• an array antenna including a plurality of antennas, each of the plurality of antennas receiving a radio wave and generating a received signal, the array antenna generating a plurality of received signals;
• an analog discrete converter configured to convert the plurality of received signals expressed in analog into a plurality of digital received signals expressed in digital;
• a frequency detector configured to detect a frequency of the plurality of digital received signals;
• a sparse signal processor configured to calculate a plurality of complex amplitudes which are coefficients for a plurality of base vectors, each of the plurality of base vectors expressing phases, at the frequency detected by the frequency detector, of the plurality of antennas included in the array antenna receiving a radio wave coming from each of a plurality of predetermined directions, the plurality of base vectors and the coefficients being used in expressing the plurality of digital received signals as a linear sum of a finite number of the base vectors multiplied by respective coefficients, to separate the plurality of digital received signals into a plurality of direction signals, each of the plurality of direction signals being a signal coming from the direction corresponding to a non-zero component in the coefficients, and to calculate the phase of each of the separated direction signals from the phase of the corresponding complex amplitude being the non-zero component in the coefficients;
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• a signal synthesizer configured to align the phase of the direction signals separated by the sparse signal processor using phase differences calculated from phases of the complex amplitudes calculated by the sparse signal processor, and to synthesize the direction signals.