Extending coherence time for analysis of modulated random processes

In this paper, we relax a commonly-used assumption about a class of nonstationary random processes composed of modulated wide-sense stationary random processes: that the fundamental frequency of the modulator is stationary within the analysis window. To compensate for the relaxation of this assumption, we define the generalized DEMON (“demodulated noise”) spectrum representing modulation frequency, which we use to increase the coherence time of such signals. Increased coherence time means longer analysis windows, which provides higher SNR estimators. We use the example of detection on both synthetic and real-world passive sonar signals to demonstrate this increase.

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