Radio-frequency interference mitigation for the soil moisture active passive microwave radiometer

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 761-775

  Piepmeier, Jeffrey R ^a   Johnson, Joel T ^b   Mohammed, Priscilla N ^a,c   Bradley, Damon ^a,d   Ruf, Christopher ^e   Aksoy, Mustafa ^b   Garcia, Rafael ^a   Hudson, Derek ^a   Miles, Lynn ^a   Wong, Mark ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b The Ohio State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; Radio frequency interference

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; INTERNATIONAL REGULATIONS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE; RADIOFREQUENCY INTERFERENCES (RFI); SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE PASSIVE (SMAP); STATISTICAL PROPERTIES;

DETECTORS; HARDWARE; MICROWAVE DEVICES; RADIOMETERS; SOIL MOISTURE;

INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION;

ALGORITHM; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; MITIGATION; POLARIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOFTWARE; SOIL MOISTURE; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84890442010     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2281266     Document Type: Article

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