Removal of bird-contaminated wind profiler data based on neural networks

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2699-2712

  Kretzschmar, Ralf ^a   Karayiannis, Nicolaos B ^b   Richner, Hans ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bird removal; Doppler radar system; Feedforward neural network; Neuro fuzzy system; Quantum neural network; Wind profiler

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER RADAR; WIND EFFECTS;

WIND PROFILER;

FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DATA MANAGEMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; WIND PROFILE;

EID: 0141639603     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(03)00165-1     Document Type: Article

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