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
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