DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF CERTAIN MULTICHANNEL FILTERS

Abstract

The theory of optimum least-squares multichannel filters is developed from the definitions of correlation functions and power spectra. Four types of these optimum processors were applied to an Aleutian earthquake recorded by part of the Montana LASA and the results evaluated. It appears that certain isotropic processors can give a modest signal-to-noise ratio improvement in excess of 1 db over the prefiltered straight sum. Evaluation of the outputs and transfer functions of these filters gives some insight into methods for improving their gain and stability. Several other topics are discussed from a theoretical point of view; these include estimation of power spectral density functions, frequency-wavenumber spectra, and certain coherence functions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 26, 1968
Accession Number
AD0828731

Entities

People

  • D. W. Mccowan

Organizations

  • Teledyne Technologies

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Bandpass Filters
  • Computations
  • Detection
  • Earth Sciences
  • Fast Fourier Transforms
  • Filters
  • Filtration
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Domain
  • Government (Foreign)
  • Grids
  • Measurement
  • Power Spectra
  • Time Domain
  • Transfer Functions

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Phased Array Antenna Design.
  • Seismology
  • Statistical inference.