Title :
Recognition of hail areas with polarimetric radar by the method of potential functions
Author :
Yanovsky, F.J. ; Sinitsyn, R.B. ; Braun, I.M.
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Electron. & Telecommun., Nat. Aviation Univ., Kiev, Ukraine
Abstract :
In this paper the method of potential functions is proposed and developed for the recognition of hail areas in weather objects. The method can be applied to the processing of fields of any informative parameters of microwave remote sensing or fields of meteorological elements.
Keywords :
atmospheric precipitation; geophysical signal processing; ice; meteorological radar; radar signal processing; remote sensing by radar; atmosphere; data processing; hail; measurement technique; meteorological radar; method of potential functions; polarization; radar polarimetry; radar remote sensing; recognition method; signal processing; weather radar; Acoustic scattering; Distribution functions; Microwave theory and techniques; Polarization; Radar measurements; Radar polarimetry; Radar scattering; Random variables; Reflectivity; Remote sensing;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARSS '02. 2002 IEEE International
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7536-X
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1026792
