This paper describes a method for estimating the instantaneous
frequency and instantaneous amplitude of real signals.
The method is based on engineering ideas and uses frequency
separation with a filter similar to those found in radio
devices. The method approximates the analytic signal, and
the estimated amplitude and frequency are practically the same
as those given by the analytic signal. The method is simple, fast, precise,
robust to noise, easy to implement, free of parasitic
cross-terms and gives results which compare very favourably with
other methods for the measurement of frequency modulated
signals, associated or not with amplitude modulation. Examples
are given, both of mathematical signals and of real world
signals (a bat echo-location signal), showing that the method can
be used for precise analysis of a very large variety of signals.
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