Cramér-Rao bounds for radar altimeter waveforms

European Signal Processing Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Mailhes, Corinne ^a   Tourneret, Jean Yves ^a   Severini, Jérôme ^a   Thibaut, Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b CLS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETER WAVEFORM; ESTIMATION ERRORS; ESTIMATION STRATEGIES; ESTIMATION VARIANCE; LOWER BOUNDS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; MINIMIZING THE MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; MINIMUM VARIANCE; OPTIMALITY; RADAR ALTIMETERS; UNBIASED ESTIMATOR; UNKNOWN PARAMETERS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84863763616     PISSN: 22195491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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