Bivariate Instantaneous Frequency and Bandwidth
Abstract
The generalizations of instantaneous frequency and instantaneous bandwidth to a bivariate signal are derived. These are uniquely defined whether the signal is represented as a pair of real-valued signals, or as one analytic and one anti-analytic signal. A nonstationary but oscillatory bivariate signal has a natural representation as an ellipse whose properties evolve in time, and this representation provides a simple geometric interpretation for the bivariate instantaneous moments. The bivariate bandwidth is shown to consist of three terms measuring the degree of instability of the time-varying ellipse: amplitude modulation with fixed eccentricity, eccentricity modulation, and orientation modulation or precession. An application to the analysis of data from a free-drifting oceanographic float is presented and discussed.
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@article{arxiv.0902.4111,
title = {Bivariate Instantaneous Frequency and Bandwidth},
author = {Jonathan M. Lilly and Sofia C. Olhede},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.4111},
year = {2011}
}