On Oct 13, 2010, at 12:32 AM, David McClain <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Hello John,
> 
>> Well, not entirely -- it's common enough to see FFT applications that
>> compute frequency readings at sub-bin precision by tracking atan(Q,I) across
>> multiple time records.  That is a well-defined thing to do, since the
> 
> 
> Yes, indeed, I am familiar with that technique from my SIGINT days... 
> however, what you are really doing is extending the sampling period by 
> looking at multiple scans. And so that isn't really any different at its base 
> than just taking a longer period FFT.
> 
> The only way I have ever seen super-resolution is when you do AR 
> deconvolution, bearing in mind that wherever there are instrumental induced 
> zeros in the spectrum, you will get nonsense values in the result. AR, aka 
> maximum-entropy, attempts to produce a minimum norm estimate, akin to that 
> from SVD analysis.
> 

That's but one way.   There's also music and esprit as well of a host of other 
similar methods.

> 
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