Bias and variance in frequency estimation at the leading edge of a peak in the spectrum of a windowed signal under multipath mitigation

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1935-1950

  Wagner, Thomas ^a   Schuster, Stefan ^b   Pfeil, Reimar ^c   Stelzer, Andreas ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MICROELECTRONICS   (Austria)

^b JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^c ACCM (Austrian Center of Competence in Mechatronics) GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Edge estimation; frequency estimation; multipath propagation; spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BIAS AND VARIANCE; EDGE ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY ESTIMATES; FREQUENCY-MODULATED CONTINUOUS-WAVE RADARS; MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; MULTI-PATH MITIGATION; SINUSOIDAL FREQUENCY ESTIMATIONS;

DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; ESTIMATION; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; RADAR SYSTEMS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

EID: 84879033792     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2013.2251822     Document Type: Article

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