Optimal Mean Velocity Estimation for Doppler Weather Radars

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 575-586

  Chornoboy, Edward S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA PROCESSING; DOPPLER EFFECT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VECTORS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

BAYES ESTIMATION; CRAMER RAO (CR) BOUNDS; GAUSSIAN SIGNAL MEASUREMENT MODEL; OPTIMAL DOPPLER VELOCITY ESTIMATION; PULSE PAIR METHOD (PP); THEMATIC MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD (ML);

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

EID: 0027592145     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.225525     Document Type: Article

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