A general analysis of the impact of digitization in microwave correlation radiometers

Sensors

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 6066-6087

  Bosch Lluis, Xavier ^a   Ramos Perez, Isaac ^a   Camps, Adriano ^a   Rodriguez Alvarez, Nereida ^a   Valencia, Enric ^a   Park, Hyuk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Correlation; Digital; Microwave; Quantization; Radiometers; Sampling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALOG DIGITAL CONVERTER; ARTICLE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANALOG-DIGITAL CONVERSION; DATA COMPRESSION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; MICROWAVES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 79959834325     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s110606066     Document Type: Article

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