Quantifying bird density during migratory stopover using weather surveillance radar

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2741-2751

  Buler, Jeffrey J ^a   Diehl, Robert H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Animals; Correlation; Doppler radar; Radar data processing; Refractivity

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL TARGETS; CORRELATION; DENSITY ESTIMATES; ELEVATION ANGLE; GULF OF MEXICO; HARDWOOD FORESTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; MIGRATING BIRDS; RADAR DATA; RADAR DATA PROCESSING; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; RADAR TARGET; REFLECTIVITY DATA; REFRACTIVITY; SPATIAL DISPLACEMENT; SPRING SEASON; VERTICAL PROFILE; VERTICAL TARGETS; VERTICAL VARIATION; WEATHER RADARS; WEATHER SURVEILLANCE RADAR;

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; DOPPLER EFFECT; DOPPLER RADAR; MAMMALS; RADAR; RAIN; REFLECTION; REFRACTION; SURVEILLANCE RADAR; TARGETS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ALGORITHM; CORRELATION; DATA PROCESSING; DOPPLER RADAR; FLIGHT; MIGRATORY SPECIES; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REFLECTIVITY; REFRACTION; STOPOVER; VERTICAL PROFILE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

ANIMALIA; AVES; HEXAPODA;

EID: 67949089642     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2014463     Document Type: Article

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