I am gathering data from a sensor, but the data gathering depends on a code running, so the timing is not precise to make it equally paced.
What I mean is this, the time it takes to do measurement #1 and #2 is not exactly the same between measurement #2 and #3 and so one.
I may have data like this:
value = 20 taken at t=0s
value = 21 taken at t=0.2s
value = 44 taken at t=0.44s
value = 22 taken at t=0.67s
value = 33 taken at t=0.9s
value = 32 taken at t=1.3s
As you can see the time between measurements is not exactly the same and can vary slightly.
The idea is to perform a Fourier Cosine Transform on the discreet values.
First question is:
- will this not equally time between the measurements affect the DCT?
- what can be done to "normalize" the data to have constant times?