• DocumentCode
    929156
  • Title

    The effect of digitization errors on detection of weak signals in noise

  • Author

    Clark, Barry G.

  • Author_Institution
    National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, Va.
  • Volume
    61
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    1973
  • Firstpage
    1654
  • Lastpage
    1655
  • Abstract
    A common method of detecting weak signals in the presence of noise is to digitize samples of the signal and average the samples to reduce the effect of noise. It is shown that errors in the digitizer can affect this process even if they are much smaller than the noise variance.
  • Keywords
    Capacitive sensors; Extraterrestrial measurements; Grain size; Noise measurement; Noise reduction; Optical films; Quantization; Signal detection; Silver; Transistors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Proceedings of the IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9219
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/PROC.1973.9346
  • Filename
    1451276