On-site non-destructive measurement of termite activity using the spectral kurtosis and the discrete wavelet transform

Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1472-1488

  De La Rosa, Juan José González ^a,b   Moreno Muñoz, Antonio ^a,c   Gallego, Antolino ^d   Piotrkowski, Rosa ^d,e   Castro, Enrique ^d  

^a Research Group PAIDI TIC 168   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN MARTÍN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission; Discrete wavelet transform; Higher order statistics; Insect detection; Spectral kurtosis; Time frequency analysis; Transient detection

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE WAVELETS; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; INSECT DETECTION; SPECTRAL KURTOSIS; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; TRANSIENT DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER TESTING; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; ENTROPY; METADATA; MICROCOMPUTERS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSIENTS;

WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

EID: 77957839455     PISSN: 02632241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.measurement.2010.08.009     Document Type: Article

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