| DOA | Direction of Arrival |
| SCA | Sparse Circular Array |
| UCA | Uniform Circular Array |
| MUSIC | Multiple Signal Classification |
| ESPRIT | Estimation of Signal Parameters via Rotational Invariance Techniques |
| ML | Maximum Likelihood |
| MIMO | Multi-in Multi-out |
| UAV | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |
| SLA | Sparse Linear Array |
| NSLA | Nested Sparse Linear Array |
| NSCA | Nested Sparse Circular Array |
| ANM | Atomic Norm Minimization |
| EMaC | Enhanced Matrix Completion |
| SPICE | Sparse Iterative Covariance-based Estimator |
| GLS | Gridless-SPICE |
| BT | Beamspace Transformation |
| IBT | Inverse Beamspace Transformation |
| SDP | Semidefinite Problem |
| GSCA | Gridless DOA Estimation in Sparse Circular Array (Proposed Algorithm) |
| EVD | Eigenvalue Decomposition |
| RMSE | Root-Mean-Square-Error |