Pinging in the rain: Boffins track wet spots using phone masts

Raindrops keep falling on my EDGE

Dutch university boffins working with meteorological experts and, er, T-Mobile have mapped rainfall using records of radio attenuation, producing real-time maps as good as radar and a lot cheaper.…

via The Register - Networks

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