Country-wide rainfall maps from cellular communication networks.

ABSTRACT: Accurate and timely surface precipitation measurements are crucial for water resources management, agriculture, weather prediction, climate research, as well as ground validation of satellite-based precipitation estimates. However, the majority of the land surface of the earth lacks such data, and in many parts of the world the density of surface precipitation gauging networks is even rapidly declining. This development can potentially be counteracted by using received signal level data from the enormous number of microwave links used worldwide in commercial cellular communication networks. Along such links, radio signals propagate from a transmitting antenna at one base station to a receiving antenna at another base station. Rain-induced attenuation and, subsequently, path-averaged rainfa

SUBMITTER: Overeem A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3581927 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature