Howtosignalprocessing
What is downsampling of a signal?
(1) To make a digital audio signal smaller by lowering its sampling rate or sample size (bits per sample). Downsampling is done to decrease the bit rate when transmitting over a limited bandwidth or to convert to a more limited audio format.
Why does downsampling cause aliasing?
If a discrete-time signal's baseband spectral support is not limited to an interval of width 2 π / M radians, downsampling by M results in aliasing. Aliasing is the distortion that occurs when overlapping copies of the signal's spectrum are added together.
What happens in downsampling?
Downsampling. The idea of downsampling is remove samples from the signal, whilst maintaining its length with respect to time. For example, a time signal of 10 seconds length, with a sample rate of 1024Hz or samples per second will have 10 x 1024 or 10240 samples.
