Fusion of surface radar and satellite rainfall data using feature calibration and alignment

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 677-695

  Grassotti, Christopher ^a   Iskenderian, Haig ^a   Hoffman, Ross N ^a  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; SENSOR DATA FUSION; WEATHER SATELLITES;

FEATURE CALIBRATION AND ALIGNMENT; GROUND BASED RADAR;

METEOROLOGY;

DATA ACQUISITION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; RAINFALL; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 0032716886     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1999)038<0677:caa>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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