TY - GEN
T1 - Recent results of rainfall mapping from cellular network measurements
AU - Messer, Hagit
AU - Goldshtein, Oren
AU - Rayitsfeld, Asaf
AU - Alpert, Pinhas
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Electromagnetic waves are known to be influenced by atmospheric conditions. Therefore, wireless communications, in which electromagnetic signals carry the information, can be used in environmental studies. In a recently published paper, it has been demonstrated that received signal level (RSL) measurements from fixed terrestrial line-of-sight microwave links, deployed by cellular operators, can be used to estimate space-time rainfall intensities [1]. In this follow-up paper we present recent real data results based on a rigorous algorithm which converts received signal level measurements from a set microwave links in an arbitrary geometry, lengths and frequencies into a two dimensional rain map. As such, the great potential of using globally spread wireless communication systems for accurate two dimensional rainfall monitoring has is exploited.
AB - Electromagnetic waves are known to be influenced by atmospheric conditions. Therefore, wireless communications, in which electromagnetic signals carry the information, can be used in environmental studies. In a recently published paper, it has been demonstrated that received signal level (RSL) measurements from fixed terrestrial line-of-sight microwave links, deployed by cellular operators, can be used to estimate space-time rainfall intensities [1]. In this follow-up paper we present recent real data results based on a rigorous algorithm which converts received signal level measurements from a set microwave links in an arbitrary geometry, lengths and frequencies into a two dimensional rain map. As such, the great potential of using globally spread wireless communication systems for accurate two dimensional rainfall monitoring has is exploited.
KW - Environmental monitoring
KW - Microwave links
KW - RSL measurements
KW - Rain field reconstruction
KW - Rainfall estimation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=51449120784&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518820
DO - 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518820
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AN - SCOPUS:51449120784
SN - 1424414849
SN - 9781424414840
T3 - ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
SP - 5157
EP - 5160
BT - 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP
T2 - 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP
Y2 - 31 March 2008 through 4 April 2008
ER -