Program
08:30 - 10:00
Athena Hall
Opening Remarks​
08:40 - 09:10
Keynote #1
Review of Opportunistic Integrated Weather Sensing and Communication by CMLs
Hagit Messer, School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel
09:10 - 09:35
Keynote #2
Hands-On Opportunistic Rainfall Estimation from Satellite Signals: Implementation, Performance and Lessons Learnt
Filippo Giannetti, Dept. of Information and Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy
09:35 - 10:00
Keynote #3
Opportunistic Rain Measurements from TV-sat: An Operational Business Application
François Mercier, Co-founder and CSO of HD-Rain, France
Session AM-1: Keynotes
Chair: Jonatan Ostrometzky
08:30 - 08:40
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break and Light Refreshments
10:30 - 12:30
Athena Hall & Poster Area WP-B
Session AM-2: Posters
Chair: Hagit Messer
10:30 - 10:50
Athena Hall
Short Introduction Talks (2-minute for each poster)
10:50 - 12:30
Poster Area WP-B
Poster Session
Posters Topics:
Opportunistic Rainfall Sensing: State of the Art and Perspectives in Italy
Filippo Giannetti (1), Vincenzo Lottici (1), Federico Porcù (2), Giacomo Roversi (2), Pier Paolo Alberoni (3), Elia Covi (3), Roberto Nebuloni (4), Greta Cazzaniga (5), Carlo De Michele (5), Cristina Deidda (5), Matteo Colli (6), Sara Zani (6), Christian Gianoglio (7), Daniele D. Caviglia (7), Elisa Adirosi (4)
1 University of Pisa; 2 University of Bologna; 3 Arpae Emilia Romagna; 4 CNR; 5 Politecnico di Milano; 6 Artys, Darts Engineering srl; 7 University of Genoa
Opportunistic Rainfall Measurements from Dual Channel Ku-Band Receiver
François Mercier (1), Laurent Barthès (2), Cecile Mallet (2)
1 HD-Rain; 2 LATAMOS/UVSQ
Rain Estimation Over a Region Using CycleGan
Sagi Timinsky, Hai Habi, Jonatan Ostrometzky
Tel Aviv University
Expert Flagging of Commercial Microwave Link Signal Anomalies: Effect on Rainfall Estimation and Ambiguity of Flagging
Julius Polz (1), Luca Glawion (1), Maximilian Graf (2), Christos Pikridas (1), Nico Blettner (2), Elzbieta Lasota (1), Lennart Schmidt (3), Harald Kunstmann (2), Christian Chwala (1)
1 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; 2 University of Augsburg; 3 Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH – UFZ
Potential and Limitations of Filling Gaps in Commercial Microwave Link Data Stemming from Complete Loss of Signal During Heavy
Maximilian Graf (1), Nico Blettner (1), Julius Polz (2), Christian Chwala (2)
1 University of Augsburg; 2 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
A Cramer–Rao Based Study of 2-D Fields Retrieval by Measurements from A Random Sensor Network
Shai Sagiv, Hagit Messer
Tel Aviv University
Empiric Bayesian Inversion of Evaporation Ducts from Synthetic Phased-Array Data
Ted Rogers (1), Peter Gerstoft (2)
1 Scripps Institution of Oceanography; 2 UCSD
Performance of A Low-Cost Dual-Frequency GNSS Receiver for Near Real-Time Water Vapor Estimation
Christina Oikonomou (1), Ion-Anastasios Karolos (1), Stylianos Bitharis (1), Christos Pikridas (1), Haris Haralambous (2)
1 Cloudwater LTD.; 2 Frederick University
Improved Calibration method for CML Humidity Retrievals Over Complex Terrain
Yoav Rubin, Pinhas Alpert
Tel Aviv University
Improved Water Vapor Density Estimation With Commercial Microwave Links Attenuation And Temperature
Itay Bragin, Yoav Rubin, Pinhas Alpert, Jonatan Ostrometzky
Tel Aviv University