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- From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
- Subject: Re: Maximum Entropy Spectral Analysis
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.155927.11681@unocal.com>
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- References: <C18FAs.Cwn@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:59:27 GMT
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- In article <C18FAs.Cwn@ucunix.san.uc.edu> roberts@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Michael Alan Roberts) writes:
- >Sorry if this is an FAQ, but I am trying to learn about the Burg
- >algorithm for Maximum Entropy Spectral Analysis, the Akaike Information
- >Criterion, and the Prony method of spectral analysis.
- >
- >From my reading of some journal articles, it appears that geophysicists
- >have had a great need for these techniques, and might be expected to
- >know of them.
- >
- >I am looking for a more basic description of the logic and mathematics
- >of MESA, AIC, and Prony. I would also be interested to know if anyone
- >has experience with any software that does any of this.
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- These algorithms make assumptions what happens to missing data because experiments usually collect
- too little data to get accurate spectral resolution.
- Astronomers use this stuff a lot.
- Burg's thesis advisor, Claerbout, just published a book called Basic Earth Imaging in which he
- discusses these issues from a geophysicists viewpoint. Code is included.
-