Existence and Estimation of Impropriety in Real Rhythmic Signals

Abstract

Impropriety in complex signal processing has been studied and used primarily in a communications context, but also in some cases where complex signals are generated by adding real signals in quadrature. We discuss the meaning of impropriety, and the associated use of complementary statistics, when a real-valued random process is improper in the frequency domain. Through the use of modulation signal models, spectral impropriety can be connected explicitly to the frequency and phase of components belonging to a periodic, or more generally rhythmic, modulator waveform. We give theoretical signal models and provide an example of complementary analysis on underwater propeller noise from a merchant ship.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA575105

Entities

People

  • Ivars P. Kirsteins
  • Les Atlas
  • Pascal Clark

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Data Science
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Domain
  • Frequency Shift
  • Information Science
  • Modulation
  • Modulators
  • Noise
  • Periodicals
  • Physical Properties
  • Propeller Noise
  • Propellers
  • Random Variables
  • Signal Processing
  • Statistics

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Approximation Theory.
  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.