let us assume,
I have a vector t with the times in seconds of my samples. (These samples are not equally distributed on the time domain.
Also I have a vector data containing the samplevalues at the time t.
t and data have the same length.
If I plot the graph some sort of periodical signal is obtained.
now I could perform: abs(fft(data)) to get my spectrum, which is then plotted over the amount of data points on the x-axis.
How can I obtain my spectrum regarding the times in vector t and plot it? I want to see which frequencies in 1/s or which period in s my signal contains.
Thanks for your help.
You can resample or interpolate your sample points to get another set of sample points that are equally spaced in t. The chosen spacing or sample rate of the second set of equally spaced sample points will allow you to infer frequencies to the result of an FFT of that second set.
The results may be noisy or include aliasing unless the initial data set is bandlimited to a sufficiently low frequency to allow interpolation. If bandlimited, then you might try something like cubic splines as an interpolation method.
Although it may look like one can get a high FFT bin frequency resolution by resampling to a larger number of data points, the actual useful resolution accuracy will be more related to the original number of samples.