Method of estimating a high frequency carrier signal

A method of estimating the carrier frequency of a signal, comprising the steps of:

• a) initializing a time average vector to zero;
• b) select a user-selectable number of time segments;
• c) receiving a signal, said signal divided into said user-selectable time segments;
• d) calculating a cross spectral surface, the cross spectral surface calculated from a spectral estimation process on the user-selectable time segment divided signal;
• e) calculating a phase re-parameterization;
• f) perform a peak picking operation, the peak picking operation producing a peak average vector;
• g) comparing the magnitude of each element of the peak average vector, and selecting the element with the largest magnitude;
• h) perform a combination first and second correlation process, the combination first and second correlation process are two applications of an outer product;
• i) appending the combined correlation vector to the time average vector and repeating for each of the user-selectable number of time segments;
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• j) calculate carrier estimate, said carrier estimate the most commonly occurring frequency in said time average vector.