Computer Vision of Cloud
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Data flows from satellites like water from a firehose.
We receive about 10 Megabytes per second: about one terabyte per day.
Computer vision algorithms can help to transform this
data deluge
into
descriptive, spatially organized information.
Such information could help to
increase the reliability of weather surveillance,
increase the accuracy and timeliness of
short-range weather predictions,
and possibly facilitate the assimilation of data for numerical weather prediction.
Infra-red wavelength image before segmentation
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