<div style="padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"><img class="img-auto" style="min-width: 100px; max-width: 2556px;" src="https://www.quiz-maker.com/3012/CDN/96-4722522/22-ta-1-009-sps-75years-tm-lockup-white-rgb.png" alt="22-TA-1-009_SPS_75Years_TM_Lockup_White_RGB" width="191" height="144" /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 24pt;">75th Anniversary Trivia</span></strong></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">December 2023</span></div>

Noise is usually considered an unwanted element within signal processing. Nevertheless, the concept of noise has proven useful for:

Proving the existence of atoms

Calculating Avogorado’s number

Stochastic differential equations

All of the above

Signal Processing has been used in baseball to enhance players’ performance. Its most common application is:

Analysis of a batter’s swing

Predicting the path of ground balls

Calling balls and strikes

Measuring pitch speed

In 1978, the first digital processing of synthetic aperture radar images took place. Digital processing of SAR images dramatically reduced cost and made SAR feasible for civilian applications. The first spaceborne civilian SAR flew on which satellite:

Landsat-3

TIROS-2

Seasat-1

Seasat-2

Signal processing was later used to prove that the supposed “four gunshots” heard over police radio of President Kennedy’s assassination was actually:

Actual gunshots

Police motorcycle backfiring

Fireworks several blocks away

A stonemason’s hammer

The acronym MPEG stands for:

Music Processing Expert Group

Multimedia Processing and Enhancement Group

Music Propagation Equalizer Group

Moving Pictures Expert Group

What was the noisiest signal or data you have encountered, and what did you use to solve it?

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