A double detector for RFI mitigation in microwave radiometers

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 458-465

  Piepmeier, Jeffrey R ^a,b   Mohammed, Priscilla N ^a,c   Knuble, Joseph J ^b  

^a IEEE

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Kurtosis; Radio frequency interference (RFI); Radiometer; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MICROWAVE DEVICES; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; VIDEO AMPLIFIERS;

KURTOSIS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE (RFI); WIDEBAND VIDEO AMPLIFIERS;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 38549144233     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.909099     Document Type: Conference Paper

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