WindSat radio-frequency interference signature and its identification over land and ocean

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 530-538

  Li, L ^a,b,d,e   Gaiser, Peter W ^a,b,f   Bettenhausen, Michael H ^a,b   Johnston, William ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Computational Physics Inc ^*  (United States)

^d AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION   (United States)

^e IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society ^*  (United States)

^f WindSat Spaceborne Polarimetric Microwave Radiometer Demonstration Project

Author keywords

Microwave remote sensing; Radio frequency interference (RFI); WindSat

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CORRELATION; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; RADIO-FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE; WINDSAT;

ALGORITHMS; MICROWAVES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RADIOMETERS; STATISTICS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 33244456204     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.862503     Document Type: Article

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