A high-resolution dual-Doppler technique for fixed multiantenna airborne radar

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3475-3489

  Damiani, Rick ^b   Haimov, Samuel ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne dual Doppler; Cloud physics; Error analysis; Radar meteorology; Spatial gridding; Velocity field retrieval; Weather radar

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE DUAL-DOPPLER; CLOUD PHYSICS; RADAR METEOROLOGY; SPATIAL GRIDDING; VELOCITY FIELD RETRIEVAL; WEATHER RADARS;

AIRCRAFT; CONSTRAINT THEORY; INVERSE KINEMATICS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR SYSTEMS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

EID: 33749019976     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.881745     Document Type: Article

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