Performance study of a cross-frequency detection algorithm for pulsed sinusoidal RFI in microwave radiometry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2899-2908

  Güner, Bariş ^a   Niamsuwan, Noppasin ^b   Johnson, Joel T ^c  

^a HALLIBURTON   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Detectors; Radio spectrum management; Radiometry; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

DETECTION METHODS; DETECTION THRESHOLD; DETECTOR PERFORMANCE; DUTY CYCLES; FREQUENCY ALGORITHMS; FREQUENCY DETECTION; MEASURED DATA; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; PERFORMANCE STUDY; RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE; RADIO SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT; SINUSOIDAL INTERFERENCE; THRESHOLD ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHMS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL DETECTION;

DETECTORS;

ALGORITHM; DETECTION METHOD; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REMOTE SENSING; THRESHOLD;

EID: 77953870589     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2043532     Document Type: Article

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