July 2020 – RAYmaps

July 27, 2020June 3, 2022Fundamentals

KAY’s Single Frequency Estimator

The basic concept of Kay’s estimator is quite simple. It finds the phase advanced from one sample to the next and this gives us the frequency. Averaging is performed over the time window to get more accurate results. Averaging can be performed using uniform weighting or a weighting function defined by Kay in [1].

July 3, 2020December 9, 2024Fundamentals

A Comparison of FFT, MUSIC and ESPRIT Methods of Frequency Estimation

As discussed in previous posts it is frequently required in communications and signal processing to estimate the frequency of a signal embedded in noise and interference. The problem becomes more complicated when the number of observations (samples) is quite limited. Typically, the resolution in the frequency domain is inversely proportional to the window size in the time domain.