The system is now available through the iRain mobile application, devoted to facilitate people’sinvolvement in collecting local data for global precipitation monitoring(http://en.unesco.org/news/irain-new-mobile-app-promote-citizen-science-and-support-water-management). iRain allows users to visualize real-time global satellite precipitation observations,track extreme precipitation eventsworldwide, and report local rainfallinformation using a crowd-sourcing functionality tosupplement the data, whichprovides opportunities to improveremote-sensing precipitationestimations.