a device that locates leaks in water or gas lines through noise detection
Headphones amplify the sound and a correlator can pinpoint the exact location ofthe leak for maintenance teams to then patch.
Examples of 'correlator' in a sentence
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The laser pulses with tilted fronts were characterized by a spatially resolving cross correlator.
Bovensiepen U., Ligges M., Kammler M., Hanisch-Blicharski A., Wall S., Frigge T.,Kalus A., Streubühr C., Zhou P., von der Linde D., Horn-von Hoegen M. 2013, 'Ultrafast time resolved reflection high energy electron diffraction with tilted pumppulse fronts', EPJ Web of Conferenceshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20134110016. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The ultra-wideband short impulse signals are correlated with a local pulse template by the correlator.
Tu Chunjiang, Liu Boan, Chen Hongyi 2005, 'An Analog Correlator for Ultra-Wideband Receivers', EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processinghttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/ASP.2005.455. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The algorithm performs template matching for spike detection by a normalized correlator.
Wen-Jyi Hwang, Szu-Huai Wang, Ya-Tzu Hsu 2014, 'Spike Detection Based on Normalized Correlation with Automatic Template Generation',Sensorshttp://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/14/6/11049. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The correlation frequency was calculated using the correlator engine.
P. H. Pandit, U. Khot, S. D. Jawak, S. D. Jawak, A. J. Luis 2018, 'SPATIOTEMPORAL CHANGES IN VELOCITY OF MELLOR GLACIER, EAST ANTARCTICA USING LANDSAT-8DATA', The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial InformationScienceshttps://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-5/787/2018/isprs-archives-XLII-5-787-2018.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)