Titan, fractals, and filtering of cassini altimeter data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2055-2061

  Franceschetti, Giorgio ^a,b,c   Callahan, Philip S ^d   Iodice, Antonio ^a,b   Riccio, Daniele ^a,b   Wall, Stephen D ^d  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extraterrestrial exploration; Filtering; Fractals; Radar altimetry

Indexed keywords

EXTRATERRESTRIAL EXPLORATION; GEOMETRICAL MODELS; RADAR ALTIMETRY; STATISTICAL MODELS;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DATA REDUCTION; DIGITAL FILTERS; FILTRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FRACTALS;

EID: 33746873309     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.872152     Document Type: Article

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