Transient signal modelling and detection using spectral correlation

This presentation briefly reviews the modeling of finite energy signals using a linear time-varying system excited by white noise. General properties of this model are consistent with intuition regarding transients produced by physical systems. The implications of these assumed model properties for observable features to obtain a detector based on the spectral correlation function are presented. The results of testing the proposed detector vis-a-vis a conventional power spectral detector are given.<>