Earth Science Deep Learning: Applications and Lessons Learned

Deep Learning: A subfield of machine learning; Algorithms inspired by function of the brain; Scales with amount of training data; Powerful tool without the need for feature engineering; Suitable for Earth Science applications. Deep Learning for Earth science at MSFC (Marshall Space Flight Center): Phenomena identification; Hurricane intensity (wind speed) estimation; Severe storm (hailstorm) detection; Transverse bands detection; Entity extraction for knowledge graph creation; Ephemeral water detection.