公开(公告)号：US06920233B2

公开(公告)日：2005-07-19

申请号：US10079995

申请日：2002-02-19

申请人： Marilyn Wolfson ,  Richard Johnson ,  Barbara Forman ,  William Dupree ,  Kim E. Theriault ,  Robert Boldi ,  Carol Wilson ,  Robert G. Hallowell ,  Richard L. Delanoy

发明人： Marilyn Wolfson ,  Richard Johnson ,  Barbara Forman ,  William Dupree ,  Kim E. Theriault ,  Robert Boldi ,  Carol Wilson ,  Robert G. Hallowell ,  Richard L. Delanoy

IPC分类号： G01S13/86 ,  G01S13/95 ,  G01W1/10 ,  G06K9/00

CPC分类号： G01W1/10 ,  G01S13/86 ,  G01S13/951 ,  Y02A90/18

摘要： A method and apparatus for forecasting the likely occurrence of convective weather events, such as thunderstorms. An image filter is used to identify areas of interest within a meteorological image that are likely to contain convective weather. The image filter and an image difference processor identify areas within the meteorological image that are likely to experience a growth and/or decay of weather events. The meteorological image, interest image and growth/decay image are processed to produce the short-term forecast.

摘要翻译： 一种用于预测对流天气事件（如雷暴）可能发生的方法和装置。 图像滤波器用于识别可能包含对流天气的气象图像中的感兴趣区域。 图像滤波器和图像差分处理器识别气象图像中可能经历天气事件的增长和/或衰减的区域。 气象图像，兴趣图像和成长/衰变图像被处理以产生短期预报。

公开(公告)号：US07062066B2

公开(公告)日：2006-06-13

申请号：US10144667

申请日：2002-05-11

申请人： Marilyn Wolfson ,  Richard Johnson ,  Barbara Forman ,  William Dupree ,  Kim E. Theriault ,  Robert Boldi ,  Carol Wilson ,  Robert G. Hallowell ,  Richard L. Delanoy

发明人： Marilyn Wolfson ,  Richard Johnson ,  Barbara Forman ,  William Dupree ,  Kim E. Theriault ,  Robert Boldi ,  Carol Wilson ,  Robert G. Hallowell ,  Richard L. Delanoy

IPC分类号： G06K9/00

CPC分类号： G01W1/10 ,  G01S13/86 ,  G01S13/951 ,  Y02A90/18

摘要： A method and apparatus for forecasting the likely occurrence of convective weather events, such as thunderstorms. An image filter is used to identify areas of interest within a meteorological image that are likely to contain convective weather. The image filter and an image difference processor identify sub-image regions within the meteorological image that are likely to experience a growth and/or decay of weather events. The classification filter classifies sub-image regions within the meteorological image into a number of predetermined storm categories. The meteorological images are filtered using matched filters, features within the filtered images are tracked, and the resulting track vectors are combined according to the storm classification. The meteorological image, interest image, growth/decay image, classification image, and combined vectors are processed to produce the short-term forecast.