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Spectral Analysis Terms

Power spectral density (PSD), periodogram, Welch method, Bartlett, MUSIC, ESPRIT, autocorrelation, cross-correlation, spectrogram, leakage, scalloping loss.

9 terms in this category.

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  • Autocorrelation Autocorrelation is the cross-correlation of a signal with a delayed copy of itself, producing a function that measures how similar the signa...
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  • Cross-Correlation Cross-correlation measures the similarity between two signals as a function of a time lag applied to one of them, producing a sequence (or f...
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  • Dirichlet Kernel The Dirichlet kernel is a trigonometric function defined as the sum of N complex exponentials equally spaced in frequency, evaluating to sin...
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  • Harmonics Harmonics are frequency components in a signal at integer multiples of a fundamental frequency. In embedded signal processing, they appear i...
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  • Periodogram A periodogram is an estimate of the power spectral density (PSD) of a signal, commonly computed by squaring the magnitude of the signal's di...
  • Power Spectral Density
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  • Spectrogram A spectrogram is a two-dimensional representation of how the frequency content of a signal evolves over time, typically displayed as a plot ...
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  • Welch Method The Welch method is a technique for estimating the power spectral density (PSD) of a signal by computing averaged modified periodograms of o...
  • White Noise White noise is a random signal whose power spectral density (PSD) is flat across all frequencies -- meaning every frequency band of equal wi...