Synthesizing radar maps of polar regions with a Doppler-only method

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 3912-3919

  Roulston, Mark S ^a   Muhleman, Duane O ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Doppler radar; Polar radar map; Radon transform

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); DOPPLER EFFECT; DOPPLER RADAR; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SPACE RESEARCH;

POLAR RADAR MAP; RADAR REFLECTIVITY MAP; RADON TRANSFORM;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0031169201     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.003912     Document Type: Article

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