Using mobile phone towers to help predict the next big flood
Cellphone towers could soon become more than just ugly buildings to satisfy our communication needs.
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Atmospheric humidity can strongly influence radio signals by scattering them in all directions, weakening and making it much harder to detect on the receiving end. A team of researchers from the University of Tel Aviv has now found a new, promising way of exploiting this phenomenon to accurately predict the intensity of imminent floods and other natural catastrophes.
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