LDA and PDA signal analysis using wavelets

A processing procedure is described that estimates the frequency and the ar rival time from signals measured with a laser Doppler anemometer (LDA) and additionally, the phase difference and the time delay of signals measured w ith a phase Doppler anemometer (PDA). The basis of the estimation procedure is a wavelet transform. The procedure described works iteratively, alterna ting between the time and the frequency domain. The performance of the esti mator is compared to other estimation procedures and the Cramer-Rao lower b ound using numerical simulations.