Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR or S/N) is a measure used in science and engineering that compares the level of a desired signal to the level of background...
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Peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) is an engineering term for the ratio between the maximum possible power of a signal and the power of corrupting noise that...
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telecommunications, the carrier-to-noise ratio, often written CNR or C/N, is the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a modulated signal. The term is used to distinguish the...
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engineering, the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) (also known as the signal-to-noise-plus-interference ratio (SNIR)) is a quantity used to give theoretical...
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Signal-to-quantization-noise ratio (SQNR or SNqR) is widely used quality measure in analysing digitizing schemes such as pulse-code modulation (PCM). The...
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Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is used in imaging to characterize image quality. The sensitivity of a (digital or film) imaging system is typically described...
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example in the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) and signal-to-noise plus interference ratio (SNIR) measures. Noise is also typically...
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useful signal. The CIR resembles the carrier-to-noise ratio (CNR or C/N), which is the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR or S/N) of a modulated signal before...
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Contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) is a measure used to determine image quality. CNR is similar to the metric signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), but subtracts a...
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low-noise amplifier (LNA) is an electronic component that amplifies a very low-power signal without significantly degrading its signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)...
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alternately be defined as a signal that produces a signal-to-noise ratio of a given value m at the output. In practice, m is usually chosen to be greater than unity...
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Noise figure (NF) and noise factor (F) are figures of merit that indicate degradation of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) that is caused by components in...
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scientific imaging, the two-dimensional spectral signal-to-noise ratio (SSNR) is a signal-to-noise ratio measure which measures the normalised cross-correlation...
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SNDR (redirect from Signal-to-noise-and-distortion ratio)
Signal-to-noise and distortion ratio (SNDR) is a term used for a set of measures of the quality of a signal from a communications device. These include...
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Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), ratio of noise power to signal power Peak signal-to-noise ratio, maximum SNR in a system Signal to noise ratio (imaging)...
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Look up signal-to-noise ratio in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Signal to Noise may refer to: Signal-to-noise ratio, a measure used in science and engineering...
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disputed][dubious – discuss] Audio equipment specifications tend to include the terms signal-to-noise ratio and dynamic range, both of which have multiple definitions...
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pulsed X-ray sources, with fluxes of 1012 to 1014 photons/sec/mrad/mA and greatly improves the signal-to-noise ratio over that obtainable from conventional...
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active noise control is generally achieved through the use of analog circuits or digital signal processing. Adaptive algorithms are designed to analyze...
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Eb/N0 (redirect from Bit energy to noise density ratio)
{\displaystyle E_{b}/N_{0}} (energy per bit to noise power spectral density ratio) is a normalized signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) measure, also known as the "SNR...
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as noise, low image rejection ratio, phase noise, carrier suppression, distortion, etc.) or signal path cause the actual constellation points to deviate...
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expressed as the noise figure (or sometimes noise temperature). This is the signal-to-noise ratio at the input divided by the signal-to-noise ratio at the output...
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improvement is the improvement in the signal-to-noise ratio of the high-frequency portion of the baseband, i.e., modulating signal, which improvement results from...
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Ring laser (section Signal-to-noise ratio)
polarization. The following equations can be used to calculate the signal-to-noise ratio, S/N for rotation. The signal frequency is S = Δfs = 4 Ω → ⋅ A → λ L {\displaystyle...
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RF chain (section Signal-to-noise ratio)
system has gain ripple. The signal-to-noise ratio (S:N) is the peak signal power of the pulse (Psig) divided by the total noise power (Pnoise) from the M...
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engineering to calculate the signal-to-noise ratio of a multistage amplifier. One relates to noise factor while the other relates to noise temperature...
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Radio jamming (redirect from Wireless signal jammer)
of radio signals that disrupt telecommunications by decreasing the signal-to-noise ratio. The concept can be used in wireless data networks to disrupt...
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minimum magnitude of input signal required to produce a specified output signal having a specified signal-to-noise ratio, or other specified criteria...
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maximal signal intensity in the least amount of time when signal averaging over many transients. In other words, the highest signal-to-noise ratio can be...
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incident signal temperature that would be needed to match the internal noise of the detector such that the signal-to-noise ratio is equal to one. Often...
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