A modified optimal interpolation technique for vector retrieval for coherent Doppler LIDAR

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1132-1136

  Choukulkar, Aditya ^a   Calhoun, Ronald ^a   Billings, Brian ^b   Doyle, James D ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Doppler LIDAR; optimal interpolation; remote sensing; vector retrieval

Indexed keywords

COHERENT DOPPLER LIDAR; DOPPLER LIDARS; LOCAL INFORMATION; OPTIMAL INTERPOLATION; RETRIEVAL ACCURACY;

INTERPOLATION; REMOTE SENSING;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84863455554     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2191762     Document Type: Article

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