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Article #974Practical DSP problem
From: Paul T Russell
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 1990 14:53
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 1990 14:53
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I would appreciate any suggestions on practical methods for extracting spectral information from a noisy signal. In particular I need to measure the amplitude of one sinusoidal component (whose frequency is known in advance) where the amplitude of the component is close to the noise level. My first thought was to use an FFT to estimate the power spectrum and then try to identify the peak, but I feel sure that there must be a better way. Maybe digital filtering or some other means of power spectrum estimation (such as the Maximum Entropy Method) ? Or perhaps I should be doing something in the time domain, such as autocorrelation + averaging ? Suggestions, ideas, examples, source code, all welcome.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!syma!paulr From: paulr@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Paul T Russell) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Practical DSP problem Message-ID: <3575@syma.sussex.ac.uk> Date: 5 Oct 90 14:53:15 GMT Sender: paulr@syma.sussex.ac.uk Organization: University of Sussex Lines: 14