Pulse compression for weather radars

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 125-142

  Mudukutore, Ashok S ^a   Chandrasekar, V ^b   Jeffrey Keeler, R ^c  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and School of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Pulse compression; Weather radar

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA COMPRESSION; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); DOPPLER RADAR; ECHO SUPPRESSION; PULSE MODULATION; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

PULSE COMPRESSION; SIDELOBE SUPPRESSION; WIDEBAND WAVEFORM TECHNIQUES;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

EID: 0031646487     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.655323     Document Type: Article

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