Multi-PRI signal processing for the Terminal Doppler Weather Radar. Part II: Range-velocity ambiguity mitigation

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1507-1519

  Cho, John Y N ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; ADAPTIVE FILTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER RADAR; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR CLUTTER; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADAPTIVE CLUTTER FILTERING; MULTIPLE PULSE-REPETITION INTERVAL (MULTI-PRI) TRANSMISSION; RANGE-OVERLAY PROTECTION; RANGE-VELOCITY; TERMINAL DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR (TDWR);

METEOROLOGY;

DOPPLER RADAR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 27744541962     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH1805.1     Document Type: Article

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