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

SynthRain: a synthetic testbed for opportunistic rainfall mapping with dense city-scale CML networks

Jun 24, 2026, 2:15 PM
1h 15m
Comparative performance analysis and uncertainty assessment Coffee poster session #2

Speaker

Matej Istvanek (Brno University of Technology)

Description

Commercial microwave links enable opportunistic, city-scale rainfall sensing, but controlled evaluation of interpolation and visualization behavior is difficult with real data. We present SynthRain, a synthetic simulation pipeline created to generate dense, city-like CML network scenarios together with configurable rainfall fields and noisy link observations. SynthRain supports systematic parameter sweeps (e.g., network density, wet-target fraction, IDW power, neighbor count, distance constraints) and produces rainfall maps and summary sheets for rapid comparison. The tool was developed to simulate diverse operating conditions and stress-test the TelcoSense visualization platform, validating map rendering, thresholds, and user-facing behavior across many controlled scenarios.

Author

Matej Istvanek (Brno University of Technology)

Co-authors

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

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