Detection of convective initiation using Meteorological Imager onboard Communication, Ocean, and Meteorological Satellite based on machine learning approaches

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 9184-9204

  Han, Hyangsun ^a   Lee, Sanggyun ^a   Im, Jungho ^a   Kim, Miae ^a   Lee, Myong In ^a   Ahn, Myoung Hwan ^b   Chung, Sung Rae ^c  

^a Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^c National Typhoon Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Communication; Convective initiation (CI); Interest fields; Lead time; Machine learning; Meteorological imager (MI); Northeast Asia; Ocean and meteorological satellite (COMS)

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BALLOONS; CLOUDS; COMMUNICATION; DECISION TREES; HAZARDS; INFRARED IMAGING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LIGHTNING; RAIN; SATELLITES; STORMS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

CONVECTIVE INITIATION; INTEREST FIELDS; LEADTIME; METEOROLOGICAL IMAGER (MI); NORTHEAST ASIA; OCEAN AND METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE (COMS);

CHEMICAL DETECTION;

EID: 84937931173     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70709184     Document Type: Article

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