Numerical method for transit time measurement in ultrasonic sensor applications

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1241-1246

  Bucci, Giovanni ^a,b   Landi, Carmine ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustic devices; Cepstral analysis; Digital measurements; Liquid measurement; Signal processing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; NUMERICAL METHODS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

CEPSTRAL ANALYSIS; TRANSIT TIME MEASUREMENTS;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0031377087     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.668262     Document Type: Article

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