CARIDI , Andrea

Weather conditions have in general huge impact on the global economy, in particular on agriculture, industry, transport, and so forth. In recent years, also the occurrences of rapid and localized heavy rainfall in complex topographic areas became more frequent, possibly due to global warming. These facts cause injuries and deaths, and an...

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Object of the invention is a system for the environmental monitoring of precipitation events, comprising a central unit and one or more remote measuring units operatively connected to the central unit, in which the measuring unit or units comprise: - at least one receiver adapted to receive a radio signal transmitted by one or more microwave...

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This paper describes the results obtained by the application of an innovative environmental monitoring technique able to estimate rainfall intensity in real time by processing the attenuation of microwave satellite link signal measured by low cost sensors. The satellite that has been used during our work, Turksat 42° E, belongs to the plethora...

In recent years, the occurrence of flash flood events seems increasing all over the world. Flash flooding is a result of heavy localized rainfall such as that from slow moving intense thunderstorms. Such floods often become raging torrents, which rip through riverbeds, valleys, and city streets, and possibly generate extensive damage. To cope...

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This work presents the performance of an innovative environmental monitoring system - Smart Rainfall System (SRS) - that estimates rainfall in real-time by means of the analysis of the attenuation of satellite signals (DVB-S in the microwave Ku band). SRS consists in a set of peripheral microwave sensors placed on the field of interest, and...