Name: Symposium on the hydrometeorological usage of data from commercial microwave link networks
Start: 2019-06-25T08:48:00+02:00
End: 2019-06-28T14:00:00+02:00
Location: KIT Campus Alpin

Symposium on the hydrometeorological usage of data from commercial microwave link networks

from Tuesday, June 25, 2019 (8:48 AM) to Friday, June 28, 2019 (2:00 PM)

Monday, June 24, 2019
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

8:48 AM Arrival with local bus line number 2
Arrival with local bus line number 2
8:48 AM - 8:49 AM
9:15 AM Opening - Harald Kunstmann
Opening
- Harald Kunstmann
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: large seminar room
9:30 AM Keynote 1: How can urban water management benefit from high coverage by cellular networks? - Vojtěch Bareš (Czech Technical University in Prague)
Keynote 1: How can urban water management benefit from high coverage by cellular networks?
- Vojtěch Bareš (Czech Technical University in Prague)
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: large seminar room
10:00 AM Keynote 2: GPCCs contributions and recommendations towards an integrated global high-quality and accessible precipitation monitoring - Andreas Becker (DWD)
Keynote 2: GPCCs contributions and recommendations towards an integrated global high-quality and accessible precipitation monitoring
- Andreas Becker (DWD)
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: large seminar room
10:30 AM Group picture outside
Group picture outside
10:30 AM - 10:35 AM

10:35 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:35 AM - 10:55 AM
Room: large seminar room
10:55 AM HyMet CML research overview of the different countries and institutes 1
HyMet CML research overview of the different countries and institutes 1
10:55 AM - 11:55 AM
Room: large seminar room
Contributions

10:55 AM Country-wide rainfall estimation with CML data in Germany: The past, the present and the future - Christian Chwala (KIT (IMK-IFU) / Uni Augsburg)

11:10 AM Wet Antenna Attenuation Estimation by Monitoring the Reflection Coefficient - Clemens Moroder (Technical University of Munich)

11:25 AM Inherent limitations in 2-D rain retrieval from CMLs - Hagit Messer-Yaron

11:40 AM Other-than-rainfall monitoring of moisture, fog and dew - Pinhas Alpert (Department of Geophysics, Tel Aviv University, Israel)
11:55 AM Lunch
Lunch
11:55 AM - 1:20 PM
Room: large seminar room
1:20 PM HyMet CML research overview of the different countries and institutes 2
HyMet CML research overview of the different countries and institutes 2
1:20 PM - 2:25 PM
Room: large seminar room
Contributions

1:20 PM Commercial microwave link rainfall estimation for the Netherlands and upscaling to developing regions - Aart Overeem (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute / Wageningen University & Research)

1:40 PM Rainfall detection by wireless microwave links in Italy: the story so far - Roberto Nebuloni (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR))

1:55 PM Opportunistic Use of Data from Satellite Communication Networks for Rainfall Estimation - Ahmad Gharanjik (Databourg Systems SARL-S)

2:10 PM 3-D Rain Rate Estimation from Integrated Measurements of Commercial Wireless and Satellite Links: an overview - Fabio Saggese (University of Pisa)
2:25 PM HyMet CML research overview of the different countries and institutes
HyMet CML research overview of the different countries and institutes
2:25 PM - 2:50 PM
Room: large seminar room
Contributions

2:25 PM Combining microwave links and meteosat second generation data for rainfall studies in Kenya - Kumah Kwabena Kingsley (University of Twente / ITC )

2:30 PM Rain rate retrieval test from millimeter wave link measurement in Beijing - Congzheng Han

2:35 PM Improve rainfall measurement using CML in Melbourne - Jayaram Pudashine (Monash University / Wageningen University & Research)

2:40 PM First results of CML rainfall estimation in Palestine (presented by C. Chwala) - Christian Chwala (KIT (IMK-IFU) / Uni Augsburg) Sameer Shadeed (An-Najah National University )

2:45 PM CML rainfall estimation in Burkina Faso (presented by C. Chwala) - Christian Chwala (KIT (IMK-IFU) / Uni Augsburg) François Zougmoré (University of Ouagadougou - Laboratoire de Matériaux et Environnement LA.M.E)
2:50 PM HyMet CML research overview of the different countries and institutes
HyMet CML research overview of the different countries and institutes
2:50 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: large seminar room
Contributions

2:50 PM Opportunistic use of commercial microwave links and meteosat second generation data for rainfall studies in Kenya - Kumah Kwabena Kingsley (University of Twente / ITC )

2:50 PM Applying CML rainfall estimation at regional and urban scale in Nigeria, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh - Thomas van Leth (Wageningen University & research)

2:50 PM Rain Rate Retrieval Test from Millimeter-wave Measurement in Beijing - Congzheng Han (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

2:50 PM Rainfall retrieval using commercial microwave links in Melbourne, Australia - Jayaram Pudashine (Monash University / Wageningen University & Research)

2:50 PM The challenges along the CML data processing chain and how we tackle them - Christian Chwala (KIT (IMK-IFU) / Uni Augsburg)
Specific HyMet CML research topics
Specific HyMet CML research topics
2:50 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: large seminar room
Contributions

2:50 PM Path Averaged Rainfall as a Single Point: Unfulfilled Potential or a Good Enough Convention? - Adam Eshel (Tel Aviv University)

2:50 PM Estimating raindrop size distributions using microwave link measurements - Thomas van Leth (Wageningen University & research)

2:50 PM Performance evaluation of rain level estimation from CMLs - Taeer Weiss

2:50 PM Analysis of RSSI of signals sampled from an operational E-Band wireless communication network - Mor Hadar (Tel-Aviv University)

2:50 PM Urban Humidity Field from Commercial Microwave Links - Yoav Rubin (Tel Aviv University)

2:50 PM Classifying fog depth using data from commercial microwave links - David Tsidkiahu (Student )
3:50 PM Stakeholder views on HyMet challenges and CML networks
Stakeholder views on HyMet challenges and CML networks
3:50 PM - 4:50 PM
Room: large seminar room
Contributions

3:50 PM The mobile industry view on CML for rainfall observation: A GSMA perspective - Daniele Tricarico (GSMA)

4:05 PM An overview of the real-time radar-based precipitation analysis of Deutscher Wetterdienst and plans for including CML data - Tanja Winterrath (Deutscher Wetterdienst )

4:20 PM Rain monitoring with commercial microwave link networks in Sweden - Remco van de Beek (SMHI, Sweden)

4:35 PM Automatic classification of fading events in large microwave networks - Jonas Hansryd (Ericsson AB )
4:50 PM Coffee
Coffee
4:50 PM - 5:05 PM
Room: large seminar room

5:05 PM Podium discussion
Podium discussion
5:05 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: large seminar room

6:09 PM Transfer with local bus line number 2 to conference dinner
Transfer with local bus line number 2 to conference dinner
6:09 PM - 6:26 PM

7:00 PM Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
9:15 AM Long-term and/or large-scale analysis
Long-term and/or large-scale analysis
9:15 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: large seminar room
Contributions

9:15 AM Methodology improvement of microwave link derived rain rate in Sweden - Remco van de Beek (SMHI, Sweden)

9:35 AM The challenge of processing one year of German-wide CML data - Maximilian Graf (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, IMK-IFU, Kreuzeckbahnstr. 19, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany)

9:55 AM Rainfall estimation accuracy of a nation-wide instantaneously sampling commercial microwave link network: error-dependency on known characteristics - Aart Overeem (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute / Wageningen University & Research)
10:10 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: large seminar room
10:30 AM CML time series processing
CML time series processing
10:30 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: large seminar room
Contributions

10:30 AM Comparison of the achievable accuracy of CML based rain-retrieval algorithms based on min/max measurements vs. instantaneous measurements - Jonatan OSTROMETZKY (Columbia University in the City of New York)

10:50 AM Detecting rainfall events in CML attenuation time series using convolutional neural networks - julius polz (KIT/IMK-IFU)
11:10 AM Coffee
Coffee
11:10 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: large seminar room
11:30 AM Error sources and corrections
Error sources and corrections
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: large seminar room
Contributions

11:30 AM Electromagnetic Phenomena behind the Wet Antenna Effect - Clemens Moroder (Technical University of Munich) Uwe Siart (Technical University of Munich)

11:50 AM Long-term rainfall-runoff experiment at a small urban catchment using dense CML network - Vojtěch Bareš (Czech Technical University in Prague)

12:10 PM Rainfall estimation from Cellular Networks data based on local climatology. - Yury Lechinsky (KLL)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:50 PM
Room: large seminar room
1:50 PM Spatial reconstruction and data fusion
Spatial reconstruction and data fusion
1:50 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: large seminar room
Contributions

1:50 PM Stochastic reconstruction of precipitation fields using commercial microwave link information - Barbara Haese (University of Augsburg, Institute of Geography, Augsburg, Germany )

2:10 PM Key parameters for the tomographic reconstruction of rainfall fields - Angelo Sileo (Politecnico di Milano)

2:30 PM Finding an optimal grid resolution - Remco van de Beek (SMHI, Sweden)

3:10 PM 3-D Rain Rate Estimation from Integrated Measurements of Commercial Wireless and Satellite Links - Fabio Saggese (University of Pisa)

3:30 PM Signal Processing Approach to Spatial Reconstruction and Data Fusion - Hagit Messer-Yaron
3:50 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:50 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: large seminar room
4:10 PM Diversity
Diversity
4:10 PM - 4:50 PM
Room: large seminar room
Contributions

4:10 PM Rainfall retrieval with new generation of cellular backhaul network operating at E-band - Martin Fencl (Czech Technical University in Prague)

4:30 PM TBA - Yoav Rubin
Thursday, June 27, 2019
9:15 AM Standards
Standards
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: large seminar room
Contributions

9:15 AM Naming conventions

9:35 AM Performance metrics
10:15 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:15 AM - 10:35 AM
Room: large seminar room
10:35 AM Data sets and tools
Data sets and tools
10:35 AM - 11:35 AM
Room: large seminar room
Contributions

10:35 AM Open high-resolution signal strength data from a commercial microwave link network in Gothenburg, Sweden - Remco van de Beek (SMHI)

10:50 AM pycomlink - a Python toolbox for CML data processing

11:05 AM R packages
11:35 AM Walk/hike for lunch and coffee with community discussion
Walk/hike for lunch and coffee with community discussion
11:35 AM - 3:20 PM
Room: large seminar room
3:20 PM Future collaboration and joint proposals
Future collaboration and joint proposals
3:20 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: large seminar room
Contributions

3:20 PM Cost Action OPENSENSE: Opportunistic precipitation sensing network
4:20 PM Coffee
Coffee
4:20 PM - 4:40 PM
Room: large seminar room

4:40 PM Conclusions
Conclusions
4:40 PM - 5:40 PM
Room: large seminar room
Friday, June 28, 2019

9:15 AM Flexible time for concluding Day2 and Day3 tasks and for wrap-up
Flexible time for concluding Day2 and Day3 tasks and for wrap-up
9:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: large seminar room

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