Saturday, 30 November 2013

Now, RainCars Could be Used to Measure Rainfall

Researchers have come up with an initiative, 'RainCars' that aims to use GPS-equipped moving cars as devices to measure rainfall. Rainfall can be very variable across different parts of a region. Conventional rain gauges are accurate, but are often distributed too sparsely to capture much of this variation. Having good information about precipitation is important for flood prediction and prevention, for example. Project-leader Uwe Haberlandt from University ...

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