Quantifying bird migration by a high-resolution weather radar

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1867-1875

  Nebuloni, Roberto ^a   Capsoni, Carlo ^b   Vigorita, Vittorio ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c Unità Organizzativa Sviluppo e Tutela del Territorio Rurale e Montano   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biology; Radar applications; Radar signal processing; Radar target recognition

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

RADAR APPLICATIONS; RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING;

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 44049109033     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.916467     Document Type: Article

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