Research Article
Automatic Tracking and Characterization of Cumulonimbus Clouds from FY-2C Geostationary Meteorological Satellite Images
Table 1
Confusion matrix of the cloud classification using ANN classifier [
46].
| | Classes | Sea* | Land | Low-level clouds | Midlevel clouds | Thin cirrus | Thick cirrus | Multilayer clouds | Cb |
| | Sea** | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | | Land | 0.00 | 0.97 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | | Low-level clouds | 0.04 | 0.05 | 87.00 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | | Midlevel clouds | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.92 | 0.05 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | | Thin cirrus | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.93 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.00 | | Thick cirrus | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.92 | 0.05 | 0.00 | | Multilayer clouds | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.90 | 0.06 | | Cb | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.98 |
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*Observed by experience; **classified by ANN.
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