Extreme compression of weather radar data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3773-3783

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

^a IEEE   (India)

^b Philips Electronics India Ltd   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Contour based data compression; Extreme data compression; Meteorological radar; Weather radar data compression

Indexed keywords

CONTROL POINTS; EXTREME DATA COMPRESSION; WEATHER RADAR DATA COMPRESSION; WEATHER REFLECTIVITY CONTOURS;

DATA COMPRESSION; DECODING; METEOROLOGY; REFLECTION;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

EID: 35648948934     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.903675     Document Type: Conference Paper

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