Performance enhancement of a spline-based method for extreme compression of weather radar reflectivity data

Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 147-152

  Mahapatra, Pravas R ^a   Makkapati, Vishnu V ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b HONEYWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Contour based data compression; High data compression; Spline based contour reconstruction; Weather radar data compression

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; DATA COMPRESSION; DOPPLER RADAR; INTERPOLATION; RADAR IMAGING;

CONTOUR BASED DATA COMPRESSION; DATA LINKS; SPLINE BASED CONTOUR RECONSTRUCTION; WEATHER RADAR DATA COMPRESSION;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

EID: 33846984971     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSPIT.2005.1577086     Document Type: Conference Paper

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