Published in

Associazione Italiana di Telerilevamento (AIT), European Journal of Remote Sensing, 1(49), p. 933-953

DOI: 10.5721/eujrs20164949

Links

Tools

Export citation

Search in Google Scholar

Bayesian statistical analysis of ground-clutter for the relative calibration of dual polarization weather radars

Journal article published in 2016 by Marta Tecla Falconi ORCID, Mario Montopoli, Frank Silvio Marzano
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

Full text: Download

Question mark in circle
Preprint: policy unknown
Question mark in circle
Postprint: policy unknown
Question mark in circle
Published version: policy unknown
Data provided by SHERPA/RoMEO

Abstract

A new data processing methodology, based on the statistical analysis of ground-clutter echoes and aimed at investigating the stability of the weather radar relative calibration, is presented. A Bayesian classification scheme has been used to identify meteorological and/ or ground-clutter echoes. The outcome is evaluated on a training dataset using statistical score indexes through the comparison with a deterministic clutter map. After discriminating the ground clutter areas, we have focused on the spatial analysis of robust and stable returns by using an automated region-merging algorithm. The temporal series of the groundclutter statistical parameters, extracted from the spatial analysis and expressed in terms of percentile and mean values, have been used to estimate the relative clutter calibration and its uncertainty for both co-polar and differential reflectivity. The proposed methodology has been applied to a dataset collected by a C-band weather radar in southern Italy.