On the Shapiro-Wilk Test for the Detection of Pulsed Sinusoidal Radio Frequency Interference

Author

Güner, B. ; Frankford, M. ; Johnson, J.T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH

Volume

2

fYear

2008

fDate

7-11 July 2008

Abstract

The Shapiro-Wilk (S-W) test is a test of normality recommended in the statistical literature for its effectiveness in detecting a wide-variety of non-gaussian signals. Tests for normality can be used for the detection of Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). However, so far only the kurtosis test has been used for this purpose. The performance of the S-W test against pulsed sinusoidal sources is studied in this paper as an alternative method of RFI detection. An overview of the S-W test is provided, and implementation of the test in digital hardware is discussed. Performance of the test was analyzed using Monte Carlo simulations due to the difficulties in obtaining an analytical solution. Results show that the test can provide reasonable performance in detecting pulsed sinu-soidal RFI, and the effect of quantization is minimal in the sensitivity obtained.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; radiofrequency interference; statistical analysis; Monte Carlo simulation; RFI detection; Shapiro-Wilk test; digital hardware; kurtosis test; non-Gaussian signals; pulsed sinusoidal radiofrequency interference; Gaussian distribution; Hardware; Microwave radiometry; Performance analysis; Pulse shaping methods; Quantization; Radiofrequency interference; Statistical analysis; Statistical distributions; Testing; Gaussian distributions; Interference suppression; Microwave radiometry; Remote sensing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2807-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2808-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4778951

Filename

4778951