The potential of microwave links for providing information concerning the amount and type of precipitation

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5153-5156

  Upton, Graham J G ^a   Cummings, Rob J ^a   Holt, Anthony R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Phase measurement; Radar measurements; Rain; Snow

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; CONTRACTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MICROWAVES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH;

ATTENUATION; PHASE MEASUREMENT; RADAR MEASUREMENTS; RAIN; SNOW;

MICROWAVE LINKS;

EID: 51449120581     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518819     Document Type: Conference Paper

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