Precipitation Estimation at the Site of Transmission Tower Using Geographic Information System

Abstract:

A method calculating the precipitation at the site of every transmission tower based on the precipitation estimation data is proposed. An inverse-distance weighting (IDW) method is modified for spatial interpolation of the precipitation data received from Central Weather Bureau. Accuracy and computational speed are both put into consideration in the design of the proposed approach because vast amount of transmission towers is required to process at a time.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 955-959)
• Pages: 3869-3874
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.955-959.3869
• Online since: June 2014
• Authors: Leehter Yao*, Teng Shih Tsai, Rong Chi Chang
• Keywords: Geographic Information System (GIS), Precipitation, Transmission Line, transmission tower

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