2020
On the Opportunistic use of Commercial Ku and Ka Band Satcom Networks for Rain Rate Estimation: Potentials and Critical Issues
Filippo Giannetti, Marco Moretti, Ruggero Reggiannini, Attilio Vaccaro, Simone Scarfone, Alberto Ortolani
ICASSP 2020accepted
In this paper we study the opportunistic use of microwave satellite signals in the Ku and Ka bands to detect the presence of rain events and to estimate their intensity. This approach, based on measuring the excess signal attenuation due to rain, has the advantage that the potential number of sensor…