A technique for the automatic detection of insect clutter in cloud radar returns

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1498-1513

  Luke, Edward P ^a   Kollias, Pavlos ^a   Johnson, Karen L ^a   Clothiaux, Eugene E ^b  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS; AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES; AUTOMATIC DETECTIONS; CLIMATE RESEARCHES; CLOUD RADARS; DOPPLER SPECTRUMS; DOPPLER-POLARIMETRIC RADARS; DUAL WAVELENGTH RADARS; FEATURE EXTRACTORS; MIDLATITUDE; NEURAL NETWORK ALGORITHMS; POLARIZATION OBSERVATIONS; RADAR ECHOES; RADAR RETURNS; SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS; SPECTRAL SIGNATURES; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGIES;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLOUDS; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); DOPPLER EFFECT; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; NEURAL NETWORKS; RADAR;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

CLOUD; DETECTION METHOD; DOPPLER RADAR; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

HEXAPODA;

EID: 65549127365     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JTECHA953.1     Document Type: Article

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