Polarimetric weather radar retrieval of raindrop size distribution by means of a regularized artificial neural network

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3262-3274

  Vulpiani, Gianfranco ^a,b   Marzano, Frank Silvio ^a,b,c   Chandrasekar, V ^a,d   Berne, Alexis ^e   Uijlenhoet, Remko ^e  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Radar polarimetry; Raindrop size distribution (RSD); Regularization

Indexed keywords

DUALPOLARIZED WEATHER RADARS; RADAR POLARIMETRY; RAINDROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION (RSD); REGULARIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; NEURAL NETWORKS; POLARIMETERS; SIZE DETERMINATION;

RAIN;

EID: 33750844986     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.878438     Document Type: Article

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