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Since 2014 when the first conference on Rain Measurement from Cellular Phone Network in Africa was held in Burkina Faso, our group at IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement) with partners from University of Abidjan in Ivory coast and Douala in Cameroon, has carried on developing (or trying to develop) pilot experiments in different countries, Niger, Cameroon, Ivory Coast and more recently Madagascar and with different telecom operators with various degree of success both in terms of technical/scientific outcome and contractual/operational perspective levels.
In this talk we would like to review the quantitative results that could be obtained in terms of rain detection/estimation across the sites -in a context of scarce in situ data for validation- and also draw a more general SWOT (Strengths/Weaknesses/Opportunities/Threats) synthesis of what was learnt and how new perspectives (such as GMDI project) will help.