Characteristics of TRMM/PR system noise and their application to the rain detection algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1697-1704

  Takahashi, Nobuhiro ^a,b   Iguchi, Toshio ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Rain no rain classification; System noise; Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RAYLEIGH FADING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOLAR SYSTEM; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

PRECIPITATION RADAR (PR); RAIN/NO-RAIN CLASSIFICATION; SYSTEM NOISE; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION (TRMM);

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 44049087003     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.916205     Document Type: Article

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