Methods and systems for improved measurement, entity and parameter estimation, and path propagation effect measurement and mitigation in source signal separation

1. A method of processing a signal comprising:

taking a signal recorded by a plurality of signal recorders;

applying at least one super-resolution technique to the signal to produce an oscillator peak representation of the signal comprising a plurality of frequency components for a plurality of oscillator peaks;

computing at least one Cross Channel Complex Spectral Phase Evolution (XCSPE) attribute for the signal to produce a measure of a spatial evolution of the plurality of oscillator peaks between the signal recorders;

identifying a known predicted XCSPE curve (PXC) trace corresponding to the frequency components and at least one XCSPE attribute of the plurality of oscillator peaks;

measuring deviations away from the PXC trace of a plotted position for each of the plurality of oscillator peaks; and

determining a path propagation effect (PPE) based, at least in part, on the deviations and an amount of reverberation in the original signal, wherein the PPE comprises at least a phase related deviation.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

utilizing the PPE to identify a signal emitting entity.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

utilizing the PPE to remove an effect of reverberation from the signal.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the PPE comprises an amplitude related deviation.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising:

utilizing the PPE to identify a signal emitting entity.

6. The method of claim 4 further comprising:

utilizing the PPE to remove an effect of reverberation from the signal.