Rainfall rate profiling with attenuating-frequency radar using nonlinear lms technique under a constraint on path-integrated rainfall rate*

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1137-1147

  Fujita, Masaharu ^a   Satake, Makoto ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

PATH INTEGRATED RAINFALL RATE; RAIN ATTENUATING FREQUENCY RADAR;

RAIN;

AIRBORNE RADAR; ALGORITHM; RADAR; RAINFALL RATE; SPACE PLATFORM RADAR;

EID: 0031104480     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014311697218610     Document Type: Article

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