Performance of correlation estimators for spaced-antenna wind measurement in the presence of noise

Radio Science

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Zhang, Guifu ^a   Doviak, Richard J ^b   Vivekanandan, J ^a   Brown, William O J ^a   Cohn, Stephen A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Full correlation analysis (FCA); Signal to noise ratio (SNR); Spaced antenna technique; Wind measurement cross correlation ratio (CCR)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DOPPLER EFFECT; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WHITE NOISE; WIND EFFECTS;

CROSS-CORRELATION RATIO (CCR); FULL CORRELATION ANALYSIS (FCA); SPACED ANTENNA TECHNIQUES; WIND MEASUREMENT;

OPTICAL CORRELATION;

EID: 3843082788     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003RS003022     Document Type: Article

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