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This thesis comprises two parts. The first part deals with single carrier and multiple-carrier based frequency estimation. The second part is concerned with the application of ultrasound using the proposed estimators and introduces a novel efficient implementation of a subspace tracking technique. In the first part, the problem of single frequency estimation is initially examined, and a hybrid single tone estimator is proposed, comprising both coarse and refined estimates. The coarse estimate of the unknown frequency is obtained using the unweighted linear prediction method, and is used to remove the frequency dependence of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) threshold. The SNR threshold is then further reduced via a combination of using an averaging filter and an ... toggle 8 keywords

frequency estimation – spectral analysis – signal processing – sinusoidal signal – subspace tracking – cramer-rao lower bound – ultrasound – velocity estimation

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