Estimation of rainfall fields using commercial microwave communication networks of variable density

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1470-1480

  Zinevich, Artem ^a   Alpert, Pinhas ^a   Messer, Hagit ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Backhaul; Link; Microwave; Rainfall; Tomography

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROWAVES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADIO LINKS; SENSOR NETWORKS; TOMOGRAPHY;

BACKHAUL; CELL SIZES; CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS; LINK; MICROWAVE COMMUNICATIONS; MICROWAVE NETWORKS; MICROWAVE RADIOS; NETWORK GEOMETRIES; PERFORMANCE LIMITS; PIXEL SIZES; RAINFALL; RAINFALL FIELDS; RECTANGULAR GRIDS; SIMULATED EXPERIMENTS; SIMULATED MODELS; SPACE BETWEEN; TOMOGRAPHIC; URBAN AREAS; VARIABLE DENSITIES;

MICROWAVE LINKS;

ESTIMATION METHOD; MODELING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADIO WAVE; TOMOGRAPHY; URBAN AREA;

EID: 54949152724     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.03.003     Document Type: Article

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