Inversion algorithm for estimating radio frequency interference characteristics based on kurtosis measurements

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Misra, Sidharth ^a   Ruf, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; Radio frequency interference; Simulated annealing

Indexed keywords

DETECTION ALGORITHM; DUTY CYCLES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; INVERSION ALGORITHM; KURTOSIS MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE;

ALGORITHMS; ANNEALING; ERROR STATISTICS; GEOLOGY; MICROWAVES; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; RADIO; RADIO INTERFERENCE; RADIO WAVES; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EID: 77951117892     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5418029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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