Cramer-Rao Bound for Gaussian Random Processes and Applications to Radar Processing of Atmospheric Signals

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 1123-1131

  Frehlich, Rod ^a  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC REFRACTIVE INDEX; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GAUSSIAN RANDOM PROCESS; MODERATE SPECTRAL WIDTH;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0027701379     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.317450     Document Type: Article

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