4-D display of satellite cloud imagesA technique has been developed to display GOES satellite cloud images in perspective over a topographical map. Cloud heights are estimated using temperatures from an infrared (IR) satellite image, surface temperature observations, and a climatological model of vertical temperature profiles. Cloud levels are discriminated from each other and from the ground using a pattern recognition algorithm based on the brightness variance technique of Coakley and Bretherton. The cloud regions found by the pattern recognizer are rendered in three-dimensional perspective over a topographical map by an efficient remap of the visible image. The visible shades are mixed with an artificial shade based on the geometry of the cloud-top surface, in order to enhance the texture of the cloud top.
Document ID
19890024368
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Hibbard, William L. (Wisconsin, University Madison, United States)
Date Acquired
August 13, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1987
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Meeting Information
Meeting: Digital Image Processing and Visual Communications Technologies in Meteorology