Signal parameters estimation using time-frequency representation for Laser Doppler Anemometry

This paper describes a processing method to estimate parameters of chirp signals for Laser Doppler Anemometry (LDA). The Doppler frequency as well as additional useful parameters are considered here. These parameters are the burst width and the frequency rate. Several estimators based on the spectrogram are proposed. Cramer-Rao bounds are given and performance of the estimators compared to the state of the art using Monte-Carlo simulations for synthesized LDA signals. The characteristics of these signals are provided by a flight test campaign. The proposed estimation procedure takes into account the requirements for a real-time application.