The feasibility of data whitening to improve performance of weather radar

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 741-749

  Koivunen, A C ^a   Kostinski, A B ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION THEORY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTION; DATA WHITENING;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

DATA PROCESSING; RADAR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0032716887     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1999)038<0741:TFODWT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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