Title
Automatic Extraction of Gravity Waves from All-Sky Airglow Image Based on Machine Learning.
Abstract
With the development of ground-based all-sky airglow imager (ASAI) technology, a large amount of airglow image data needs to be processed for studying atmospheric gravity waves. We developed a program to automatically extract gravity wave patterns in the ASAI images. The auto-extraction program includes a classification model based on convolutional neural network (CNN) and an object detection model based on faster region-based convolutional neural network (Faster R-CNN). The classification model selects the images of clear nights from all ASAI raw images. The object detection model locates the region of wave patterns. Then, the wave parameters (horizontal wavelength, period, direction, etc.) can be calculated within the region of the wave patterns. Besides auto-extraction, we applied a wavelength check to remove the interference of wavelike mist near the imager. To validate the auto-extraction program, a case study was conducted on the images captured in 2014 at Linqu (36.2 degrees N, 118.7 degrees E), China. Compared to the result of the manual check, the auto-extraction recognized less (28.9% of manual result) wave-containing images due to the strict threshold, but the result shows the same seasonal variation as the references. The auto-extraction program applies a uniform criterion to avoid the accidental error in manual distinction of gravity waves and offers a reliable method to process large ASAI images for efficiently studying the climatology of atmospheric gravity waves.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/rs11131516
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
Field
DocType
gravity wave,automatic extraction,all-sky airglow imager,CNN,faster R-CNN
Computer vision,Gravitational wave,Airglow,Remote sensing,Image based,Sky,Artificial intelligence,Geology
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
11
13
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chang Lai100.34
Jiyao Xu201.01
Jia Yue300.68
Wei Yuan400.34
Xiao Liu500.34
Wei Li6436140.67
Qinzeng Li700.34