A neural network technique for improving the accuracy of scatterometer winds in rainy conditions

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3114-3122

  Stiles, Bryan W ^a   Dunbar, R Scott ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ocean winds; radar; rain; remote sensing; scatterometry

Indexed keywords

COLOCATIONS; DATA SETS; JET PROPULSION LABORATORY; KU-BAND; MEASUREMENT GEOMETRY; NATIONAL DATA BUOY CENTERS; NEURAL NETWORK TECHNIQUES; NORMALIZED RADAR CROSS SECTION; OCEAN WINDS; QUIKSCAT; RAINY CONDITIONS; SCATTEROMETERS; SCATTEROMETRY; SPEED ERRORS; WEATHER FORECASTS; WIND SPEED; WIND VECTORS; WIND-VECTOR-CELLS;

BIOINFORMATICS; CONTAMINATION; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR; RADAR CROSS SECTION; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SPEED; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND EFFECTS;

RAIN;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA BUOY; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; QUIKSCAT; SCATTEROMETER; VELOCITY PROFILE; WIND PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 77954762219     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2049362     Document Type: Article

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