Title :
The effect of digitization errors on detection of weak signals in noise
Author_Institution :
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, Va.
Abstract :
A common method of detecting weak signals in the presence of noise is to digitize samples of the signal and average the samples to reduce the effect of noise. It is shown that errors in the digitizer can affect this process even if they are much smaller than the noise variance.
Keywords :
Capacitive sensors; Extraterrestrial measurements; Grain size; Noise measurement; Noise reduction; Optical films; Quantization; Signal detection; Silver; Transistors;
Journal_Title :
Proceedings of the IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/PROC.1973.9346
