Rain rate estimation using measurements from commercial telecommunications links

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1616-1625

  Goldshtein, Oren ^a   Messer, Hagit ^a   Zinevich, Artem ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Environmental monitoring; Rain rate estimation; Received signal level (RSL) measurements; Wireless microwave radio networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CURVE FITTING; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; GAGES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE LINKS; MICROWAVES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MONITORING; RADAR STATIONS; RADIO LINKS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ARBITRARY GEOMETRIES; CARRIER FREQUENCIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTIMATION METHODS; MICROWAVE RADIOS; NOVEL METHODS; RAIN GAUGES; RAIN RATE ESTIMATION; RAIN RATES; RAINFALL FIELDS; RAINFALL INTENSITIES; RECEIVED SIGNAL LEVEL (RSL) MEASUREMENTS; REGULAR GRIDS; WEATHER RADAR DATUM; WEIGHTED-LEAST-SQUARES ALGORITHMS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS MICROWAVE RADIO NETWORKS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 63449115220     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2009.2012554     Document Type: Article

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