Sensitivity of the kurtosis statistic as a detector of pulsed sinusoidal radio frequency interference in a microwave radiometer receiver

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2706-2709

  De Roo, Roger D ^a   Misra, Sidharth ^a   Ruf, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Detectors; Digital radio; Interference suppression; Microwave radiometry

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICAL PARAMETER RETRIEVALS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY;

INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

RADIO INTERFERENCE;

EID: 82355168919     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423401     Document Type: Conference Paper

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