The results of automatic discrimination between weather and sea clutter using S-band dual-polarization Doppler weather radar are presented. The data were collected with the NCAR SPOL radar located in the Pacific shoreline near Seattle, USA. The multiparameter dataset includes backscattered power P (or radar reflectivity Z), Doppler velocity V, spectrum width σv, differential reflectivity ZDR (p...

Background. Chronic autoimmune thyroiditis (CAT) frequently alters thyroid vascularization, likely as a result of the autoimmune process. Objective. To evaluate the effects of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) on the thyroid vascularization of patients with hypothyroidism induced by CAT using color Doppler ultrasound parameters. Methods. In this randomized clinical trial, 43 patients who underwent...

The signal processing aspect of a 2-μm wavelength coherent Doppler lidar system under development at NASA Langley Research Center in Virginia is investigated in this paper. The lidar system is named VALIDAR (validation lidar) and its signal processing program estimates and displays various wind parameters in real-time as data acquisition occurs. The goal is to improve the quality of the current...

Car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure (henceforth called C2X) communications are constantly gaining importance for roadsafety and other applications. In order to design efficient C2X systems, an understanding of realistic C2X propagation channels is required, but currently, only few measurements have been published. This paper presents a description of an extensive measurement campaign recently ...

This paper introduces a new and novel radar interferometry based on Doppler synthetic aperture radar (Doppler-SAR) paradigm. Conventional SAR interferometry relies on wideband transmitted waveforms to obtain high range resolution. Topography of a surface is directly related to the range difference between two antennas configured at different positions. Doppler-SAR is a novel imaging modality th...

In this study, Doppler signals recorded from ophthalmic artery of 75 subjects were processed by PC-computer using classical and model-based methods. The classical method (fast Fourier transform) and three model-based methods (Burg autoregressive, moving average, least-squares modified Yule-Walker autoregressive moving average methods) were selected for processing ophthalmic arterial Doppler sig...

Doppler ultrasound is able to visualize blood flow by the change in frequency (Doppler shift) of sound waves that are reflected by moving blood cells inside the vessels (Doppler effect). Since hyperemia caused by vasodilation and angiogenesis can be the earliest detectable pathologic changes in the beginning of synovitis, Doppler ultrasonography can be used to assess inflammatory activity. In a...