A demonstration of the effects of digitization on the calculation of kurtosis for the detection of RFI in microwave radiometry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3129-3136

  De Roo, Roger D ^a   Misra, Sidharth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Detectors; Digital radio; Interference suppression; Microwave radiometry

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; STATISTICAL METHODS; THERMAL NOISE;

DETECTORS; DIGITAL RADIO; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY;

RADIO INTERFERENCE;

EID: 53849127827     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.916483     Document Type: Conference Paper

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