iRain UCI para Android

11 detalles sobre iRain UCI

1. iRain provides access to real-time global high-resolution (~4km) satellite precipitation products from the PERSIANN-CCS (Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using the Artificial Neural Networks - Cloud Classification System), which has been developed by the research team at CHRS.

2. The building block of iRain rests on the satellite precipitation estimates generated by the PERSIANN algorithm which has been under development for over two decades.

3. iRain allows users to visualize real-time global satellite precipitation observations and track extreme precipitation events globally.

4. Phu Nguyen, Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing (CHRS) at UCI and his team, which includes a dedicated group of mostly undergraduate students, including Phat Huynh, Thanh N.

5. The app is licensed to the Center for Hydrometeorology & Remote Sensing (CHRS) at the University of California Irvine (UCI).

6. - NOAA funding through the Climate Data Record (CDR) program resulted in the PERSIANN-CDR dataset.

7. Users can also use the crowdsourcing functionality of the app to report their local rainfall information to supplement our data.

8. - Cooperation with UNESCO’s G-WADI program has been critical to the dissemination of data worldwide.

9. Kuolin Hsu, Xiaogang Gao, Bisher Imam, Dan Braithwaite, Hamed Ashouri, Andrea Thorstensen, Scott Sellars, Ali Behrangi.

10. The iRain mobile app was developed by David Furman.

11. - NASA funding resulted in the development of the PERSIANN algorithm and several of its variations.