Figure 2.
The source signal at any i-th location si(t) is not a stationary stochastic process over time, but its values at any give time tj sampled in different epochs are i.i.d. Therefore s(t,k), for 1 ≤ k ≤ Ne, represents an independent observation of a stochastic process s(t) for each individual time t(note that s(t) is a stochastic process with its index sets over source locations).