A technique to censor biological echoes in radar reflectivity data

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 453-462

  Lakshmanan, Valliappa ^a   Zhang, Jian ^b   Howard, Kenneth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOMALOUS PROPAGATION; BIOLOGICAL CONTAMINANTS; BIOLOGICAL SPECIES; BIOLOGICAL TARGETS; CIRCULAR SHAPE; GROUND CLUTTER; INPUT FEATURES; LOCAL TEXTURE; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; RANGE GATES; SHAPE BASED; VERTICAL PROFILE;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; MAMMALS; NEURAL NETWORKS; RADAR; RAIN; REFLECTION; TEXTURES; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

BLOOMS (METAL);

ACOUSTICS; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; RADAR; REFLECTIVITY; VERTICAL PROFILE;

AVES; HEXAPODA;

EID: 77953520999     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAMC2255.1     Document Type: Article

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