Authors
AJ Cuddleback and Scott Palo
Abstract
As a primary driving force of the water cycle, rainfall impacts virtually every terrestrial process and ecosystem. Precipitation measurements are central to numerous critical decisions informed by hydrological processes such as the forecast and tracking of severe weather and planning of agriculture to maximize crop viability. Precipitation is highly dynamic in both space and time, and conventional precipitation measurement methods struggle to accurately estimate precipitation fields on the ground. To fill the gaps left by existing methods, I will discuss opportunities and challenges sensing of precipitation using measurements from 5G cellular network millimeter-wave (MMW) user equipment (UE).