- Title
- Polarization ellipse analysis of nonstationary signals
- Creator
- Schreier, Peter J.
- Relation
- IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing Vol. 56, Issue 9, p. 4330-4339
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSP.2008.925961
- Publisher
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- We present a novel way of extending rotary-component and polarization analysis to nonstationary random signals. If a complex signal is resolved into counterclockwise and clockwise rotating phasors at one particular frequency only, it traces out an ellipse in the complex plane. Rotary-component analysis characterizes this ellipse in terms of its shape and orientation. Polarization analysis looks at the coherence between counterclockwise and clockwise rotating phasors and whether there is a preferred rotation direction of the ellipse (counterclockwise or clockwise). In the nonstationary case, we replace this ellipse with a time-dependent local ellipse that, at a given time instant, gives the best local approximation of the signal from a given frequency component. This local ellipse is then analyzed in terms of its shape, orientation, and degree of polarization. A time-frequency coherence measures how well the local ellipse approximates the signal. The ellipse parameters and the time-frequency coherence can be expressed in terms of the Rihaczek time-frequency distribution. Under coordinate rotation, the ellipse shape, the degree of polarization, and the time-frequency coherence are invariant, and the ellipse orientation is covariant. The methods presented in this paper provide an alternative to ellipse decompositions based on wavelet ridge analysis.
- Subject
- improper complex random signal; nonstationary signal; polarization analysis; Rihaczek spectrum; rotary-spectrum analysis; wavelet ridge analysis; widely linear transformation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/38997
- Identifier
- uon:4397
- Identifier
- ISSN:1053-587X
- Language
- eng
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