Cloud and rain effects on AltiKa/SARAL ka-band radar altimeter - part II: Definition of a rain/cloud flag

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1818-1826

  Tournadre, Jean ^a   Lambin Artru, Juliette ^b   Steunou, Nathalie ^b  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b CNES   (France)

Author keywords

Ka band altimeter; Rain and cloud impact; Rain cloud flag

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC WATER; DETECTING RANGE; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; DUAL FREQUENCY; ELEMENTARY FUNCTION; FALSE ALARM RATE; GEOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; JASON-1; KA BAND; KA-BAND ALTIMETER; MATCHING PURSUIT ALGORITHMS; RADAR ALTIMETERS; RAIN CELLS; RAIN EFFECTS; RAIN/CLOUD FLAG; RANGE ERROR; SALIENT FEATURES; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; SINGLE CHANNELS; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM DISTORTIONS;

ALARM SYSTEMS; CLOUDS; ERROR DETECTION; FREQUENCY BANDS; GEOPHYSICS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WATER VAPOR; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

RAIN;

ALTIMETER; CLOUD; INSTRUMENTATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WAVE MODELING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 67349228474     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2010127     Document Type: Conference Paper

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