Clutter suppression for staggered PRT waveforms

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2209-2218

  Moisseev, Dmitri N ^a,c   Nguyen, Cuong M ^b   Chandrasekar, V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c NONE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER SUPPRESSIONS; COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITIES; ILLINOIS; NYQUIST; OBSERVATION CONDITIONS; RADAR SIGNALS; SIGNAL RATIOS; SPECTRAL MOMENTS; STAGGERED PULSE REPETITION TIME; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; TIME-DOMAIN METHODS; UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO; WAVE FORMS;

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 65549164697     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JTECHA1096.1     Document Type: Article

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