Delineation of precipitation areas from MODIS visible and infrared imagery with artificial neural networks

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 291-305

  Capacci, D ^a,b   Conway, Bryan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; RADIOMETERS; RAIN; SPACE-BASED RADAR; TABLE LOOKUP;

METEOSAT SECOND GENERATIONS; OPTIMAL COMBINATION; PRECIPITATION AREAS; RAINFALL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL CHANNELS; SPECTRAL INFORMATION; TRAINING AND TESTING; WEATHER RADAR NETWORKS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOMATION; INFRARED IMAGERY; METEOSAT; MODIS; NOWCASTING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 31144467990     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482705001787     Document Type: Article

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