Title
Deep feature extraction and its application for hailstorm detection in a large collection of radar images.
Abstract
With the improvement of sensing and storing technologies, a large amount of weather data become available, and the data size will continue growing as radar imaging instruments continuously acquire data. In this work, we develop a deep convolutional neural network with a large collection of radar images as input to train and validate a classification model, and then we use the model to detect hailstorm events. This is interdisciplinary work between the disciplines of computer science and meteorology. We are primarily interested in what hailstorm features the network learns and how it learns as convolving into deeper iterations. The evaluation results show a high classification accuracy in comparison with existing hailstorm detection approaches. The proposed approach can also be used to detect other types of severe weather events with minimal efforts on variable or parameter changes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s11760-018-1380-z
Signal, Image and Video Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Hailstorm detection, Convolutional neural network, Deep feature extraction
Radar imaging,Pattern recognition,Convolutional neural network,Severe weather,Feature extraction,Artificial intelligence,Weather data,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
13
3
1863-1711
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
16
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Iksha Gurung102.37
Chao Peng2294.43
Manil Maskey33112.02
Rahul Ramachandran411729.54