Howtosignalprocessing
- What is the effect of zero padding?
- What does zero padding do to Fourier transform?
- How does zero padding increase frequency resolution?
- Does zero padding reduce spectral leakage?
What is the effect of zero padding?
Zero padding enables you to obtain more accurate amplitude estimates of resolvable signal components. On the other hand, zero padding does not improve the spectral (frequency) resolution of the DFT. The resolution is determined by the number of samples and the sample rate.
What does zero padding do to Fourier transform?
Zero-padding a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) can increase the resolution of the frequency domain results (see FFT Zero Padding). This is useful when you are looking to determine something like a dominant frequency over a narrow band with limited data.
How does zero padding increase frequency resolution?
In summary, the use of zero-padding corresponds to the time-limited assumption for the data frame, and more zero-padding yields denser interpolation of the frequency samples around the unit circle. Sometimes people will say that zero-padding in the time domain yields higher spectral resolution in the frequency domain.
Does zero padding reduce spectral leakage?
Zero-padding a signal does not reveal more information about the spectrum, but it only interpolates between the frequency bins that would occur when no zero-padding is applied. In particular, zero-padding does not increase the spectral resolution.
