| Wanneer | 22 juni 2017, aanvang 15:30 |
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| Waar | Buys Ballotzaal, KNMI, De Bilt |
Prof. Hagit Messer School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel Biography : HAGIT MESSER, Fellow of the IEEE, has joined the faculty of engineering at Tel Aviv University (TAU) in 1986, after post-doctorate at Yale University, where she is a professor of Electrical Engineering, and the Kranzberg Chair in Signal Processing, and also a co-founder of ClimaCell. On 2000 - 2003 she has been on leave from TAU, serving as the Chief Scientist at the Ministry of Science, ISRAEL. After returning to TAU she was the head of the Porter school of environmental studies (2004-6), and the Vice President for Research and Development 2006-8. On October 2008 she has started a 5 years term as the President of the Open University in Israel. She has returned to TAU on October 2013, serving also as the Vice-Chair of the council for Higher Education (CHE), ISRAEL till January 2016.
In the last decade, the use of existing measurements from a commercial wireless communication system as virtual sensors for environmental monitoring has been developed. In particular, measurements of the received signal level (RSL) in the backhaul communication microwave network of cellular systems are considered as opportunistic sensors network for precipitation.
While recent results have proved the benefits of the suggested technique for estimating and mapping of rain where each commercial microwave link (CML) is considered as a virtual rain gauge, my research group is focused on multi-sensors processing. In particular, the amount and the diversity of the available measurements enable the use of most advanced tools of statistical signal processing for optimally detecting, estimating and classifying precipitation, as well as other-than- rain phenomena.
I will review recent results and open challenges, including: bounds on rain mapping resolution, fog mapping, and multimodal processing.