Adaptive range oversampling to achieve faster scanning on the National Weather Radar Testbed phased-array radar

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1581-1597

  Curtis, Christopher D ^a   Torres, Sebastián M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data processing; Radars Radar observations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; CONVENTIONAL MATCHED FILTER; EFFICIENT ALGORITHM; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; NEW DIMENSIONS; OVER SAMPLING; PHASED ARRAY RADARS; REAL-TIME IMPLEMENTATIONS; SEAMLESS INTEGRATION; SPATIAL COVERAGE; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; WEATHER RADARS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION; METEOROLOGY; RADAR; REAL TIME CONTROL; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

TESTBEDS;

ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; DATA QUALITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; RADAR; SAMPLING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84856964249     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-10-05042.1     Document Type: Article

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