Evidence of rainfall signatures on X-band synthetic aperture radar imagery over land

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 950-964

  Marzano, Frank Silvio ^a,b   Mori, Saverio ^a,b   Weinman, James A ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Inversion methods; Microwave modeling; Precipitation; X band synthetic aperture radar (X SAR)

Indexed keywords

ALABAMA; ATTENUATION EFFECT; DATA ANALYSIS; EARTH'S SURFACE; GROUND BASED; INVERSION ALGORITHM; INVERSION METHODS; MICROWAVE MODELING; NEAR-SURFACE; NEXT GENERATION WEATHER RADARS; PROBABILITY MATCHING; QUANTITATIVE CORRELATION; RAIN RATES; RANGE MEASUREMENTS; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SAR SENSORS; SPACE-BORNE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STATISTICAL REGRESSION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGERY; TARGET DEGRADATION; TERRASAR-X; VISUAL VALIDATION; WEATHER RADARS; X-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; MICROWAVES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; RAIN; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRACKING RADAR;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

ALGORITHM; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; HURRICANE; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR IMAGERY; SIR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 76349116707     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2034843     Document Type: Article

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