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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Rainfall Map from Attenuation Data Fusion of Satellite Broadcast and Commercial Microwave Links.

Fabio Saggese, Vincenzo Lottici, Filippo Giannetti

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Special Issue "Rain Sensors".Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Fabio SaggeseDepartment of Electronic System, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-5776-3936
Vincenzo LotticiDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, 56122 Pisa, Italy.
Filippo GiannettiDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, 56122 Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0043-4098
University of Pisa · ITAalborg University · DK

Funding

European Commission 101003534European Cooperation in Science and Technology COST Action CA20136Tuscany regional administration 21885
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The demand for accurate rainfall rate maps is growing ever more. This paper proposes a novel algorithm to estimate the rainfall rate map from the attenuation measurements coming from both broadcast satellite links (BSLs) and commercial microwave links (CMLs). The approach we pursue is based on an iterative procedure which extends the well-known GMZ algorithm to fuse the attenuation data coming from different links in a three-dimensional scenario, while also accounting for the virga phenomenon as a rain vertical attenuation model. We experimentally prove the convergence of the procedures, showing how the estimation error decreases for every iteration. The numerical results show that adding the BSL links to a pre-existent CML network boosts the accuracy performance of the estimated rainfall map, improving up to 50% the correlation metrics. Moreover, our algorithm is shown to be robust to errors concerning the virga parametrization, proving the possibility of obtaining good estimation performance without the need for precise and real-time estimation of the virga parameters.

Indexed as

commercial microwave linkearth–satellite linkmicrowave propagationrain attenuationrainfall map estimationrainfall rate estimation

Identifiers

PMID36146367
PMCPMC9501153
OpenAlexW4296366007

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