Summary

International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation

2014

Session Number:FR2C

Session:

Number:FR2C_01

Millimeter-Wave Rain Sensing Networks using Dual-Frequency Measurements

Hung V. Le,  Carlo Capsoni,  Roberto Nebuloni,  Lorenzo Luini,  Takuichi Hirano,  Jiro Hirokawa,  Makoto Ando,  

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Publication Date:2014/12/2

Online ISSN:2188-5079

DOI:10.34385/proc.36.FR2C_01

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Summary:
In this paper, we propose a novel method for rain sensing using dual-frequency measurements at 25 and 38 GHz from small-scale Tokyo Tech millimeter-wave network. A real-time algorithm was developed for estimating the rain rate using ITU-R relationships and new coefficients to consider the effects of the rain Drop Size Distribution (DSD). The results show that the proposed algorithm provides the estimation in very good agreement with rain gauge data.