Neural network-based wind vector retrieval from satellite scatterometer data

Neural Computing and Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 206-216

  Cornford, D ^a   Nabney, I T ^a   Bishop, C M ^b  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conditional probability density estimation; Mixture density network; Multi layer perceptron; Periodic variables; Scatterometer; Wind vectors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033240927     PISSN: 09410643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005210050023     Document Type: Article

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