Detection of anomalous propagation echoes in weather radar data using neural networks

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 1 PART 1, 1999, Pages 287-296

  Grecu, Mircea ^a   Krajewski, Witold F ^a  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalous propagation; Image classification; Neural networks; Weather radar

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; FRACTALS; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ANOMALOUS PROPAGATION (AP) RADAR ECHO;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032759794     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.739163     Document Type: Article

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