Precipitation monitoring using commercial microwave links: current status, challenges and prospectives

P Zhang, X Liu, K Pu - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
As rainfall exhibits high spatiotemporal variability, accurate and real-time rainfall monitoring
is vitally important in fields such as hydrometeorological research, agriculture and disaster …

[HTML][HTML] A New NDSA (Normalized Differential Spectral Attenuation) Measurement Campaign for Estimating Water Vapor along a Radio Link

L Facheris, F Cuccoli, U Cortesi, S del Bianco, M Gai… - Remote Sensing, 2024 - mdpi.com
The Normalized Differential Spectral Attenuation (NDSA) technique was proposed years
ago as an active method for measuring integrated water vapor (IWV) along a Ku/K-band …

Towards Space Deployment of the NDSA Concept for Tropospheric Water Vapour Measurements

L Facheris, A Antonini, F Argenti, F Barbara, U Cortesi… - Atmosphere, 2023 - mdpi.com
A novel measurement concept specifically tuned to monitoring tropospheric water vapour's
vertical distribution has been demonstrated on a theoretical basis and is currently under …

Results of a New Campaign for Ground-to-Ground Measurements of Water Vapor through the Normalized Differential Spectral Attenuation (NDSA) Technique

L Facheris, F Argenti, F Cuccoli… - IGARSS 2024-2024 …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The NDSA technique, proposed for estimating the IWV (Integrated Water Vapor) through a
tropospheric radio link, operates by transmitting two sinusoidal signals at K band and …

Integrated Water Vapor Estimation Through Microwave Propagation Measurements: Second Experiment on A Ground-to-Ground Radio Link

F Cuccoli, L Facheris, U Cortesi… - IGARSS 2023-2023 …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Normalized Differential Spectral Attenuation technique (NDSA) has been proposed as a
method for measuring Integrated Water Vapor (IWV) by means of attenuation measurements …