An onboard processor and adaptive scanning controller for the Second-Generation Precipitation Radar

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 802-812

  Fischman, Mark A ^a   Berkun, Andrew C ^a   Chun, William ^a   Im, Eastwood ^a   Andraka, Raymond J ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Andraka Consulting Group Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault tolerance; Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs); Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission; Pulse compression; Rain; Real time processing and control; Space borne radar; Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SATELLITES;

GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT (GPM) MISSION; PULSE COMPRESSION; REAL-TIME PROCESSING AND CONTROL; SPACE-BORNE RADAR; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION (TRMM);

RADAR;

EID: 16444371262     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.844670     Document Type: Article

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