Nova Computer Programs for a Clipped Spectrum Detection Experiment,

Abstract

In order to compare the performance of various spectral line display and detection schemes, it is desirable to simulate in the frequency domain the outputs of a narrow band spectrum analyzer responding to signals buried in noise. The computer program described herein generates a pseudo-random background noise spectrum, adds randomly occurring signal events, performs automatic detections, and displays on an electrographic recorder the auto-detect files, a gram for operator processing, and a reference spectrum for post-run comparison of detection times. The experiments thus generated may be used to compare the detection performance of human operators and automatic schemes operating on linear and clipped spectral data. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 17, 1973
Accession Number
AD0758055

Entities

People

  • Curtis A. Shively

Organizations

  • Naval Ordnance Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analyzers
  • Automatic
  • Background Noise
  • Band Spectra
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Detection
  • Electromagnetic Spectra
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Domain
  • Noise
  • Spectra
  • Spectral Lines
  • Spectrum Analyzers

Readers

  • Approximation Theory.
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.