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MATRIX SIGNAL [10 records]

Record 1 2019-09-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electrical Circuits and Circuit Breakers
  • Electronic Circuits Technology
DEF

A diode matrix or other switching arrangement that is capable of directing an input signal to one of several outputs.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Circuits électriques et coupe-circuits
  • Technologie des circuits électroniques

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Circuitos eléctricos e interruptores automáticos
  • Tecnología de los circuitos electrónicos
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Record 2 2006-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Audiovisual Techniques and Equipment
  • Video Technology
DEF

An electronic device used to perform scaling, usually with a choice of scalings not necessarily an even multiple or fraction of the original scan line or pixel count.

OBS

Scaling refers to conversion of the image matrix without changing the image contents. The digital matrix-oriented projectors and monitors often have a different natural resolution to that of the image signal. The process required to adapt the image from a video signal to a graphics card signal, e. g. 1024 x 768 pixels, is called video scaling.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Audiovisuel (techniques et équipement)
  • Vidéotechnique
DEF

Appareil utilisé pour exécuter la mise à l'échelle d'un support vidéo, avec possibilité de choix de tailles, ce qui modifie généralement le nombre de lignes de balayage et de pixels horizontaux ou verticaux.

OBS

La mise à l'échelle consiste à convertir électroniquement la matrice d'image sans modifier son contenu.

Spanish

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Record 3 2006-11-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Remote Sensing
CONT

"Signal Data"(or "Raw data") products are unprocessed radar signals(simply an unprocessed matrix of time delays) formatted to the level 0 CEOS [Committee on Earth Observation Satellites] format. Clients will require SAR [Synthetic Aperture Radar] processing capabilities to use these products.

OBS

"Signal Data" product for Standard, Fine, Wide and all ScanSAR modes.

OBS

Signal Data" product: term officially approved by the RADARSAT-2 Terminology Approval Group (RTAG).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télédétection
OBS

Les produits RADARSAT sont disponibles en format archive ou informatisé (différents niveaux de traitement). Caractéristiques du produit : signal radar brut avec données auxiliaires; traitements visés et synthèse d'images, interférométrie.

OBS

produit «Signal Data» : terme uniformisé par le Groupe de travail de la terminologie de RADARSAT-2 (GTTR).

Spanish

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Record 4 2006-09-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Remote Sensing
CONT

A "RAW Signal Data" product contains raw or unprocessed radar video baseband data in complex in-phase and quadrature signal(I and Q) format as they are recorded by the spacecraft. The only processing performed to the downlink X-band "raw signal data" is the frame synchronization, meaning re-assembly of the data into contiguous radar range lines in matrix form, and the CEOS [Committee on Earth Observations Satellite] formatting. Each range line of data is represented by one Signal Data Record in the RAW CEOS product.

OBS

The RAW product can contain any single beam mode, or for ScanSAR any combination of different beam modes, depending on the operation of the SAR instrument during the data reception or recording period. A RAW product cannot, however, combine data from more than one beam mode, i.e. data from two different beam modes are always packaged as two separate products. A RAW product must be SAR processed before it can be displayed as imagery. RAW products are typically produced on 8 mm (Exabyte) tapes. This is the standard medium for exchanging data between network stations.

OBS

Raw data products are available for all RADARSAT beam modes.

OBS

"raw signal data" product: term officially approved by the RADARSAT-2 Terminology Approval Group (RTAG).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télédétection
OBS

Les produits RADARSAT sont disponibles en format archive ou informatisé (différents niveaux de traitement). Caractéristiques du produit : signal radar brut avec données auxiliaires; traitements visés et synthèse d'images, interférométrie.

OBS

produit «raw signal data» : terme uniformisé par le Groupe de travail de la terminologie de RADARSAT-2 (GTTR).

Spanish

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Record 5 2006-05-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematical Geography
CONT

A covariance matrix is generated using the echo returns. The presence of at least one target within a single range cell is detected. A plurality of consecutive pulses are transmitted in a direction of the single range cell within a sufficiently short period so that at least one target remains within the single range cell while the plurality of consecutive pulses are transmitted. An echo signal is sampled from each of the plurality of pulses. An updated covariance matrix is estimated each time the echo signal is sampled. An eigenvalue decomposition is updated each time the covariance matrix is updated. The number of targets in the single range cell is estimated, based on the updated eigenvalue decomposition.

OBS

covariance matrix: term officially approved by the RADARSAT-2 Terminology Approval Group (RTAG).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géographie mathématique
CONT

La matrice de covariance permet d'obtenir une description des propriétés diffusantes de la cible.

OBS

matrice de covariance : terme uniformisé par le Groupe de travail de la terminologie de RADARSAT-2 (GTTR).

Spanish

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Record 6 2003-03-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Satellite Telecommunications
  • Spacecraft
CONT

The main units of the AIC are : the focal plane assembly(FPA), equipped with a back-thinned illuminated CCD matrix and a front-end amplifier, provides the optical signal detection. A thermoelectric peltier cooler under the detector sets the operating point at-25°C ± 100 mK, the detection box(BD) which supplies the FPA with the necessary electrical signals to operate the CCD. It generates the clock waveforms from the VEU signals and filters the supplied voltage from the DSU, the video electronics unit(VEU) which processes the analog signal coming from the FPA, digitizes it on 12 bits before passing it on in serial processing to the science data processing subsystem(SDPSS). It also provides the DBs with the primary clock signal. The power conditioning of the VEU is located in the same unit, the detection supply unit(DSU) delivers relevant stabilized voltages to the 5 DUs and power to thermo-coolers from the main supply feeder of the instrument.

OBS

Converter sub-assembly.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télécommunications par satellite
  • Engins spatiaux

Spanish

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Record 7 2002-10-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Analytical Chemistry
DEF

A systematic error in the measure of a signal caused by the presence of concomitants in a sample.

DEF

Increase or decrease in the size of the signal obtained from the analyte as a result of the presence of some other known or unknown component in the matrix.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie analytique
DEF

[...] erreur systématique dans le mesure d'un signal, causée par la présence de tiers éléments dans l'échantillon.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Química analítica
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Record 8 2001-11-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Satellite Telecommunications
DEF

A method of providing multiple access to a communication satellite in which all of the participating earth stations use a common time-frequency domain.

OBS

Signal processing is employed to detect a wanted signal in the presence of others. Three typical approaches utilizing these techniques are spread sprectrum, frequency-time matrix, and frequency-hopping.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télécommunications par satellite

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Telecomunicaciones por satélite
DEF

Técnica para proporcionar acceso múltiple a un satélite de telecomunicación en el que todas las estaciones terrenas participantes utilizan un dominio de frecuencia-tiempo común.

OBS

El tratamiento de la señal se emplea para detectar una señal deseada en presencia de otras. El espectro ensanchado, la matriz de tiempo de frecuencia y los saltos de frecuencia son tres métodos típicos que utilizan esta técnica.

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Record 9 2001-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
  • Office Automation
CONT

In facsimile, the diode sensor array uses a stationary configuration of tiny photodiodes arranged in a matrix that equals in width one lateral scan line of a document. An original is rollerfed from a flatbed tray and passes by the sensor array one line at a time. Light is reflected from each line and focused through a lens onto the face of the photodiode array. Each diode acts as an independent photosensor in converting a small picture element into part of the total electrical signal for a scan line.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
  • Bureautique

Spanish

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Record 10 1991-12-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
DEF

Apparatus used for transforming original colour signals, or colour and luminance signals, into the form required for transmission. This usually involved translating the colour information into some form of modulation of a subcarrier.

CONT

In a compatible color encoder... the red(R), green(G), and blue(B) signals are first applied to a matrix, where they are cross-mixed.... The signal designated M conveys luminance information; it is nominally equivalent to the signal that would be generated by a monochrome camera viewing the same scene as the color camera. That is, the M or luminance signal controls the sensation of brightness.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
DEF

En télévision couleur, partie du système de codage de la caméra qui permet de créer le signal de chrominance à transmettre à partir des trois couleurs primaires de la synthèse additive.

Spanish

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