Research Article

Automatic Tracking and Characterization of Cumulonimbus Clouds from FY-2C Geostationary Meteorological Satellite Images

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Segmentation result of the Cb and mesoscale convective complexes (MCCs) (03:00 UTC on July 3, 2008). (a) IR1; (b) segmented MCCs using −52°C as TB threshold; (c) segmented Cb using the proposed SRG method with ANN classification as preprocess; (d) the same as (c) but for segmented multilayer cloud. The color of cloud patches in (b), (c), and (d) is generated randomly.
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