Remarks, mostly historical, on signal detection and signal parameter estimation

Historical remarks outlining some of the evolution of the statistical theory of detecting signals in noise and of estimating signal parameters make up the greater part of the paper. The time period covered is roughly from the years of World War II to the middle 1960s. The remarks are rather severely...

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Published inProceedings of the IEEE Vol. 75; no. 11; pp. 1446 - 1457
Main Author Root, W.L.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY IEEE 01.11.1987
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Subjects
Applied sciences
Exact sciences and technology
Filtering theory
History
Information, signal and communications theory
Laser radar
Life estimation
Optical filters
Parameter estimation
Radar theory
Sampling methods
Signal detection
Statistical analysis
Telecommunications and information theory
Parameter estimation
Filtering
Statistical theory
Signal estimation
Prediction
Signal reconstruction
Detection
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Summary:Historical remarks outlining some of the evolution of the statistical theory of detecting signals in noise and of estimating signal parameters make up the greater part of the paper. The time period covered is roughly from the years of World War II to the middle 1960s. The remarks are rather severely limited in scope; they do not touch on nonparametric statistical methods, or filtering, or prediction theory, for example. The last part of the paper is a discussion of one aspect of a signal-processing problem area that is of current interest in optics and radar, and can be regarded as one of many descendants of the early parameter estimation theory. The area is object-field reconstruction or restoration, and the aspect of interest is the intrinsic relation between the inherent instability of solutions of many such problems and the precision or resolution of detail that can be attained in the construction.
ISSN:0018-9219
1558-2256
DOI:10.1109/PROC.1987.13907