Practical Algorithms for Mean Velocity Estimation in Pulse Doppler Weather Radars Using a Small Number of Samples

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn GE-21, Issue 4, 1983, Pages 491-501

  Mahapatra, Pravas R ^a   Zrnić, Dusan S ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER WEATHER RADARS;

RADAR;

EID: 0020833133     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.1983.350512     Document Type: Article

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