Detection of radio-frequency interference for the aquarius radiometer

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3123-3128

  Misra, Sidharth ^a   Ruf, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Interference suppression; Microwave radiometry

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RADIO INTERFERENCE; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; STATISTICAL TESTS; TEMPERATURE;

ADJUSTABLE PARAMETERS; AMPLITUDE DISTRIBUTIONS; AQUARIUS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DETECTION ALGORITHMS; FALSE ALARMS; FALSE-ALARM RATES; GROUND TRUTH; GROUND-BASED; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; LOCAL MEAN; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; NEW FORMS; ON ORBITS; RADIO-FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE; RADIOMETRIC DATA; WORST CASE;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 53849094838     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.920371     Document Type: Conference Paper

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