The European Space Agency has launched Project Camaliot, an Android app that will collect data from satellites to improve the accuracy of weather forecasts. The project started on March 17 and will run until June 30.
The app will work on devices running Android 7.0 or later that support satellite navigation. The program will collect information about the atmosphere, taking into account the quality of the signal, the distance between the satellite and the phone used. With enough data collected from around the world, researchers could theoretically combine it with existing weather data and use it to train AI weather forecasting models.
They also plan to track changes in the Earth's ionosphere - the part of the atmosphere near space - to monitor space weather (including phenomena such as geomagnetic storms). Ultimately, the accuracy of weather forecasts will improve.
Camaliot will collect information from around the world and from several different constellations of satellites such as the US Global Positioning System (GPS), Russia's GLONASS, China's Beidou or Europe's Galileo. Japan and India also govern small regional groupings.
As for smartphones, the project lists more than 50 models suitable for data collection, including Google Pixel 4a, Samsung Galaxy S21, Galaxy S21 Ultra, which are mainly devices equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 5G.
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