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Environmental monitoring by wireless communication networks.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  16675693     Owner:  NLM     Status:  PubMed-not-MEDLINE    
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The global spread of wireless networks brings a great opportunity for their use in environmental studies. Weather, atmospheric conditions, and constituents cause propagation impairments on radio links. As such, while providing communication facilities, existing wireless communication systems can be used as a widely distributed, high-resolution atmospheric observation network, operating in real time with minimum supervision and without additional cost. Here we demonstrate how measurements of the received signal level, which are made in a cellular network, provide reliable measurements for surface rainfall. We compare the estimated rainfall intensity with radar and rain gauge measurements.
Authors:
Hagit Messer; Artem Zinevich; Pinhas Alpert
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Science (New York, N.Y.)     Volume:  312     ISSN:  1095-9203     ISO Abbreviation:  Science     Publication Date:  2006 May 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2006-05-05     Completed Date:  2006-05-18     Revised Date:  2007-03-19    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0404511     Medline TA:  Science     Country:  United States    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  713     Citation Subset:  -    
Affiliation:
School of Electrical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 69978 Tel-Aviv, Israel.
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