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

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

Original Title

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

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

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.

Keywords

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

Authors

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

Released

12. 10. 2022

Publisher

IEEE

Location

Valencia, Spain

ISBN

979-8-3503-9866-3

Book

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

ISBN

2157-023X

Periodical

International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops

State

unknown

Pages from

8

Pages to

13

Pages count

6

URL

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

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT180471,
  author="Milan {Bubniak} and Petr {Musil} and Petr {Mlýnek} and Lukáš {Benešl} and Martin {Rusz}",
  title="Design and Evaluation of the Application for a Measurement of Rainfall via Microwave Links",
  booktitle="2022 14th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshop (ICUMT)",
  year="2022",
  journal="International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops",
  pages="8--13",
  publisher="IEEE",
  address="Valencia, Spain",
  doi="10.1109/ICUMT57764.2022.9943528",
  isbn="979-8-3503-9866-3",
  issn="2157-023X",
  url="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9943528"
}