On the use of auxiliary receive channels for clutter mitigation with phased array weather radars

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 272-284

  Le, Khoi D ^a,b   Palmer, Robert D ^b,c   Cheong, Boon Leng ^c   Yu, Tian You ^a   Zhang, Guifu ^c   Torres, Sebastian M ^c,d  

^a University of Oklahoma   (United States)

^b Atmospheric Radar Research Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive arrays; Adaptive signal processing; Meteorological radar; Phased array radar (PAR); Radar clutter; Radar interference; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR; RADAR CLUTTER; RADAR EQUIPMENT; RADAR INTERFERENCE; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SIGNALING;

ADAPTIVE ARRAYS; ADAPTIVE SIGNAL PROCESSING; AUXILIARY CHANNELS; BEAM MULTIPLEXING; DATA SETS; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; LIMITING PERFORMANCES; NONUNIFORM SAMPLINGS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PHASED ARRAY RADAR (PAR); PHASED ARRAYS; RECEIVE CHANNELS; SCATTERING FIELDS; SIGNAL RATIOS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPATIAL FILTERING TECHNIQUES; SPECTRAL WIDTHS; TIME SERIES; TURBULENT EDDIES; WEATHER RADARS; WEIGHT CONSTRAINTS;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

DATA SET; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SAMPLING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TIME SERIES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 58149117519     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2001260     Document Type: Article

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