Another use for cell phone towers; Who’d have known?
July 14th, 2009 Posted in UpdatesAgain, while gleaning information from my favorite blog, Treehugger.com, I came across this interesting article about cell phone towers. According to the Tel Aviv University, cell phone tower signals can detect “critical moisture distribution levels” that may eventually help determine a geographic area’s flooding level.
- The radio waves emitted by cell phone towers diminish with wetter air. That, combined with rainfall distribution patterns has helped the researchers accurately predict water levels of impending floods.
Here is a link to the complete Treehugger article.