• DocumentCode
    1048455
  • Title

    A Practical Approach to the Estimation of Amplitude and Time-Delay Parameters of a Composite Signal

  • Author

    Tremblay, R. ; Carter, G. Clifford ; Lytle, Dean W.

  • Author_Institution
    Naval Undersea Warfare Center, New London, CT, USA and Ph.D. Program at the Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
  • Volume
    12
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1987
  • fDate
    1/1/1987 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    273
  • Lastpage
    278
  • Abstract
    A method for estimating the amplitude and time-delay parameters for signals that can be represented as a sum of a number of scaled and delayed replicas of a known signal in the presence of nonwhite Gaussian noise is presented. The method is based upon the principles of maximum likelihood (ML) estimation, but at certain key points simplifying assumptions are made that result in a computationally practical estimation scheme. The results are compared with other related results in the literature. Simulation results are presented which support the methods derived.
  • Keywords
    Delay estimation; Estimation; Sonar signal analysis; Sonar signal processing; Acoustic noise; Amplitude estimation; Attenuation; Computational modeling; Delay effects; Delay estimation; Gaussian noise; Maximum likelihood estimation; Nonlinear filters; Underwater acoustics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Oceanic Engineering, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0364-9059
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JOE.1987.1145222
  • Filename
    1145222