Jun 23 – 24, 2026
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Europe/Amsterdam timezone

TelcoSense: operational visualization of rainfall and temperature from commercial microwave links

Jun 23, 2026, 3:00 PM
1h 15m
Application of OS rainfall data Coffee poster session #1

Speakers

Petr Musil (Brno University of Technology, Department of Telecommunications) Štěpán Miklánek (Brno University of Technology)

Description

We present TelcoSense, a web-based platform for real-time and historical visualization of rainfall and temperature derived from operational commercial microwave link networks. The system processes link metadata and signal level measurements in a scalable backend performing rain and temperature estimation, with time-series data managed within a dedicated data infrastructure. The interactive frontend enables timeline-based exploration and link-level diagnostics, including filtering by frequency, polarization, and geometry. The platform provides synchronized map visualization of retrieved precipitation and temperature fields together with external reference products such as radar or rain gauge observations, allowing direct spatial and temporal comparison. TelcoSense is designed to support both research experimentation and near-operational deployment, facilitating transparent interpretation and practical use of microwave link-based environmental observations.

Author

Štěpán Miklánek (Brno University of Technology)

Co-authors

Matej Istvanek (Brno University of Technology) Petr Musil (Brno University of Technology, Department of Telecommunications)

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