A General Analysis of the Impact of Digitization in Microwave Correlation Radiometers

This study provides a general framework to analyze the effects on correlation radiometers of a generic quantization scheme and sampling process. It reviews, unifies and expands several previous works that focused on these effects separately. In addition, it provides a general theoretical background...

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Main Authors: Hyuk Park, Enric Valencia, Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez, Adriano Camps, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Isaac Ramos-Perez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2011-06-01
Series:Sensors
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/11/6/6066/
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Summary:This study provides a general framework to analyze the effects on correlation radiometers of a generic quantization scheme and sampling process. It reviews, unifies and expands several previous works that focused on these effects separately. In addition, it provides a general theoretical background that allows analyzing any digitization scheme including any number of quantization levels, irregular quantization steps, gain compression, clipping, jitter and skew effects of the sampling period.
ISSN:1424-8220