Accuracy of scatterometer-derived winds using the cramér-rao bound

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 2642-2652

  Oliphant, Travis E ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; GEOPHYSICAL MODEL FUNCTIONS (GMF); SCATTEROMETER-DERIVED WINDS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WIND;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033225545     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.803412     Document Type: Article

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