Airborne radio-frequency interference studies at C-band using a digital receiver

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1974-1984

  Johnson, Joel T ^a,b   Gasiewski, Albin J ^a,c   Güner, Baris ^b   Hampson, Grant A ^b,d   Ellingson, Steven W ^a,e   Krishnamachari, Rangarajan ^b   Niamsuwan, Noppasin ^b   McIntyre, Eric ^c   Klein, Marian ^c   Leuski, Vladimir Y ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b The Ohio State University   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; Radio frequency interference (RFI)

Indexed keywords

C-BAND; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; RADIO-FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE (RFI); SUBCHANNELS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA STRUCTURES; MICROWAVE DEVICES; ORBITS; RADIO RECEIVERS; RADIOMETRY;

RADIO INTERFERENCE;

EID: 33244459309     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.872523     Document Type: Article

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