WindSat radio-frequency interference signature and its identification over greenland and antarctic

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 4830-4839

  Zhao, Juan ^a,b   Zou, Xiaolei ^b,c   Weng, Fuzhong ^d  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Conical scanning microwave radiometer; radio frequency interference (RFI); WindSat

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE; RADIOFREQUENCY INTERFERENCES (RFI); SATELLITE RADIOMETER; SPECTRAL DIFFERENCES; WINDSAT;

GRANULATION; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEA ICE; SNOW;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; ICE COVER; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEA ICE; WINDSAT;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 84883809979     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2230634     Document Type: Article

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