Nefocast in schools: presentation at the “Rossi-Pascoli” institute
A presentation of the Nefocast project was made by Professor Filippo Giannetti (UNIPI) at the "Rossi-Pascoli" Institute of Massa (Liceo Classico, Linguistico e delle Scienze Sociali), as part of the dissemination activities of the project. The presentation helped to...
read moreANCI Toscana, integration of Nefocast into the citizens’ app “Cittadino Informato”
Civil protection, prevention, risks and new scenarios. In Pisa on 15th February ANCI Toscana held an international conference on the subject, within the framework the European "Proterina3" program. The current and future role of civil protection, at a time when...
read moreNefocast presented to the Tuscany Regional Authority and MIUR
The Nefocast project was presented in Firenze on 22 November 2017, at the Teatro della Compagnia theatre, where the Tuscany Region had organized a workshop entitled "Research goes onto the stage: policies in action". 12 projects from the following four application...
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The concept
The concept underpinning the project is the fact that each Smart LNB terminal must first perform a power analysis to be used during transmission, in order to properly transmit its signal. This analysis takes into account various factors, including the power of the signal received from the satellite.
The attenuation of the signal is due to many factors, but at the frequencies used by the Smart LNB terminals this attenuation is mainly due to precipitation.
The project
The aim of the project is to build an integrated technological platform that makes it possible to obtain rain fields based on the signal attenuation maps.
The project objectives are to design and implement a prototype of an integrated technological platform that can analyze the information provided by the Smart LNB, integrate it with other measurement systems (eg rain gauges) in order to improve the precision of the measurements and the accuracy of the results.
The Workgroup
The project activities will be carried out by a consortium comprised of companies and research organizations (OR), already operating in Tuscany:
- M.B.I. srl, the company leading the project,
- PRO.GE.COM. srl, partner company,
- University of Pisa, Department of Information Engineering (OR),
- National Inter-university Telecommunications Consortium, RaSS Laboratory (OR),
- Institute of Biometeorology of the National Research Council (OR).
