Detection of echoes using time-frequency analysis techniques

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 30-40

  Daponte, Pasquale ^a   Fazio, Giuseppe ^a   Molinaro, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CROSS AMBIGUITY FUNCTION; ECHO DETECTION; GABOR EXPANSION; SHORT TIME FOURIER TRANSFORM; WIGNER-VILLE DISTRIBUTION;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 0030083206     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.481308     Document Type: Article

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