Design and Evaluation of the Application for a Measurement of Rainfall via Microwave Links

Design and Evaluation of the Application for a Measurement of Rainfall via Microwave Links

Paper in proceedings (conference paper)

Commercial microwave links (CMLs) can be utilized as an effective opportunistic sensor network for rainfall measurement in both metropolitan and also countrywide deployments. However, there can be various obstacles that can be overcome by several possible methods, e.g. the effect of wet antenna attenuation (WAA). This paper describes the creation of an automated rainfall calculation software tool called Telcorain based on the existing pycomlink library. Telcorain enables end users to easily change the parameters of each step of the rainfall calculation process and switch between various processing methods. The example calculations with use of the created Telcorain application have been performed for the three rain events which took place in the metropolitan area of Prague in March and August of the 2021, using the source data from the large local CML network with 119 CMLs included in the calculations. These results are validated against data from 4 rain gauges operated by Czech Hydrometeorological Institute.

Commercial microwave links (CMLs) can be utilized as an effective opportunistic sensor network for rainfall measurement in both metropolitan and also countrywide deployments. However, there can be various obstacles that can be overcome by several possible methods, e.g. the effect of wet antenna attenuation (WAA). This paper describes the creation of an automated rainfall calculation software tool called Telcorain based on the existing pycomlink library. Telcorain enables end users to easily change the parameters of each step of the rainfall calculation process and switch between various processing methods. The example calculations with use of the created Telcorain application have been performed for the three rain events which took place in the metropolitan area of Prague in March and August of the 2021, using the source data from the large local CML network with 119 CMLs included in the calculations. These results are validated against data from 4 rain gauges operated by Czech Hydrometeorological Institute.

commerical microwave link;CML;telecommunication network;precipitation measurement;rainfall;opportunistic sensing;wet antenna attenuation;pycomlink

commerical microwave link;CML;telecommunication network;precipitation measurement;rainfall;opportunistic sensing;wet antenna attenuation;pycomlink

BUBNIAK, M.; MUSIL, P.; MLÝNEK, P.; BENEŠL, L.; RUSZ, M.

2023

12.10.2022

IEEE

Valencia, Spain

979-8-3503-9866-3

2022 14th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshop (ICUMT)

2157-023X

International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Workshops

United States of America

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https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9943528

Design_and_Evaluation_of_the_Application_for_a_Measurement_of_Rainfall_via_Microwave_Links