Clipping - Sensors & Software pulseEKKO Product Manual

Appendix B
data is high pass filtered, the wavelet is stretched in time with additional oscillations occurring
before and after the original pulse. This gives rise to a pre-cursor in the data before Time Zero
when looking at the plotted sections.

Clipping

The second artifact is caused by electronic clipping. The basic concept is depicted in the
following diagrams:
The original signal acquired by the antenna and then sent to the receiver electronics is similar to
diagram a) above.
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