A waveform model for near-nadir radar altimetry applied to the cassini mission to titan

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2252-2261

  Alberti, Giovanni ^a   Festa, Luca ^a   Papa, Claudio ^a   Vingione, Guido ^a  

^a Consortium for Research on Advanced Remote Sensing Systems ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE); Planets; Radar altimetry; Radar data processing; Remote Sensing; Spaceborne radar

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETER WAVEFORM; ANALYTICAL MODEL; CASSINI; CASSINI MISSION; FLAT SURFACES; GEOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; HIGH RESOLUTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION (MLE); MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; OPERATING CONDITION; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; PARAMETRIC ESTIMATION; POWER WAVEFORMS; PRONY'S METHOD; RADAR ALTIMETERS; RADAR ALTIMETRY; RADAR DATA PROCESSING; SIMULATED DATA; SPACEBORNE RADAR; SYSTEM RESPONSE; TRANSITION REGIONS; WAVEFORM MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION; IMPULSE RESPONSE; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; PLANETS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SECURITY OF DATA; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

ALTIMETER; GEOMETRY; MODELING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PLANET; RADAR ALTIMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; TITAN; TOPOGRAPHY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 67651154156     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2012718     Document Type: Article

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