A low-power high-resolution broad-band radar using a pulse compression technique for meteorological application

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 392-396

  Mega, Tomoaki ^b   Monden, Kazushi ^c   Ushio, Tomoo ^d   Okamoto, Ken'ichi ^a,b   Kawasaki, Zen Ichiro ^d   Morimoto, Takeshi ^d  

^a IEEE

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^c MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Broad band radar (BBR); Rain; Weather radar

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; BROADBAND NETWORKS; DOPPLER EFFECT; REFLECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

BROAD-BAND RADAR (BBR); JOSS-WALDVOGEL DISDROMETER MEASUREMENTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHM;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

EID: 34547186532     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2007.895705     Document Type: Article

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