Bayesian estimation of altimeter echo parameters

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 238-241

  Severini, J ^a   Mailhes, C ^a   Thibaut, P ^b   Tourneret, J Y ^a  

^a IRIT   (France)

^b CLS   (France)

Author keywords

Altimetry; Bayesian estimation; Gibbs sampler; Metropolis Hastings algorithm

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; GEOLOGY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; REMOTE SENSING;

ALTIMETRY; BAYESIAN ESTIMATIONS; GIBBS SAMPLERS; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI ESTIMATOR; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; METROPOLIS-HASTINGS ALGORITHM; MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 67649822068     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779327     Document Type: Conference Paper

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