Linkdata: Microwave link dataset from which path-averaged rainfall...

In overeem11/RAINLINK: Retrieval algorithm for rainfall mapping from microwave links in a cellular communication network.

Microwave link dataset from which path-averaged rainfall intensities can be computed. Received signal powers were obtained from Nokia microwave links in one of the national cellular communication networks in The Netherlands, operated by T-Mobile NL. The minimum and maximum received powers over 15-min intervals were provided, based on 10-Hz sampling. The transmitted power was almost constant. Here the data have a resolution of 1 dB, and the majority of these Nokia links used vertically polarised signals.

Description

Data were obtained from September 9, 0800 UTC - September 11, 0800 UTC (2011). The data set contains data from 2612 microwave links.

Usage

data(Linkdata)

Format

A data frame with link data from a commercial cellular communication network

Details

Several functions in the RAINLINK package read a data frame with microwave link data. Such a data frame always contains the variables as indicated below, i.e. the variables in the data set supplied to PreprocessingMinMaxRSL.

For each link and time interval the following variables are provided:

• Frequency: microwave frequency f (GHz).

• DateTime: date and end time of observation (YYYYMMDDhhmm, i.e. year (2011), month (09), day (11), hour (08), minutes (00): 201109110800).

• Pmin: minimum received power P_{\mbox{min}} (dBm).

• Pmax: maximum received power P_{\mbox{max}} (dBm).

• PathLength: length of microwave link path L (km).

• XStart: Longitude of start of links (^{\circ}; decimal degrees; WGS84).

• YStart: Latitude of start of links (^{\circ}; decimal degrees; WGS84).

• XEnd: Longitude of end of links (^{\circ}; decimal degrees; WGS84).

• YEnd: Latitude of end of links (^{\circ}; decimal degrees; WGS84).

• ID: Link identifier.

overeem11/RAINLINK documentation built on July 8, 2023, 5:53 a.m.