A novel identification method for point source, coherently distributed (CD) source and incoherently distributed (ICD) source is proposed. The differences among the point source, CD source and lCD source are studied. According to the different characters of covariance matrix and general steering vector of the array received source, a second order blind identification method is used to separate the sources, the mixing matrix could be obtained. From the mixing matrix, the type of the source is identified by using an amplitude criterion. And the direction of arrival for the array received source is estimated by using the matching pursuit algorithm from the vectors of the mixing matrix. Computer simulations validate the efficiency of the method.