Time and frequency blanking for radio-frequency interference mitigation in microwave radiometry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3672-3679

  Güner, Banş ^b   Johnson, Joel T ^a,b   Niamsuwan, Noppasin ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; Radio frequency interference (RFI)

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY BLANKING; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; RADIO-FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE (RFI);

ALGORITHMS; MEXICO; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETRY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

EID: 35648988543     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.903680     Document Type: Conference Paper

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