A preliminary study of non-uniform beam filling correction for spaceborne radar rainfall measurement

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E79-B, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 763-769

  Kozu, Toshiaki ^a   Iguchi, Toshio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Non uniform beam filling; Spaceborne rain radar; Surface reference technique

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RAIN; STATISTICAL METHODS;

NON UNIFORM BEAM FILLING; NORMALIZED STANDARD DEVIATIONS; PATH INTEGRATED ATTENUATION; RAINFALL MEASUREMENT; SPACEBORNE RAIN RADAR; SURFACE REFERENCE TECHNIQUE;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

EID: 0030167627     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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