Atmospheric boundary layer height monitoring using a kalman filter and backscatter lidar returns

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 4717-4728

  Lange, Diego ^a   Tiana Alsina, Jordi ^a   Saeed, Umar ^a   Tomás, Sergio ^b   Rocadenbosch, Francesc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT D ESTUDIS ESPACIALS DE CATALUNYA IEEC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adaptive kalman filtering; laser radar; remote sensing; Signal processing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; BACKSCATTERING; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ADAPTIVE FEATURES; ADAPTIVE KALMAN FILTERING; AUTOMATED DETECTION; BACKSCATTER LIDAR; LIDAR PROFILES; LIDAR SIGNALS; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; OBSERVATION NOISE;

OPTICAL RADAR;

AUTOMATION; BACKSCATTER; BOUNDARY LAYER; ENTRAINMENT; KALMAN FILTER; LIDAR; MIXED LAYER; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84896388209     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2284110     Document Type: Article

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