Suppression of clutter residue in weather radar reveals birds' corridors over urban area

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 128-132

  Bachmann, Svetlana M ^a,b   Zrnic, Dusan S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NOAA Office of Oceanic Atmospheric Research   (United States)

^c National Severe Storm Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SUPPRESSIONS; CLEAR AIRS; CLUTTER RESIDUES; DOPPLER WEATHER RADARS; GROUND CLUTTERS; NOISE SUPPRESSIONS; OKLAHOMA CITIES; SPECTRAL TECHNIQUES; URBAN AREAS; WEATHER RADARS;

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; POLARIZATION;

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 47849108384     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2008.915601     Document Type: Article

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