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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2006
Filed:
May. 11, 2002
Marilyn Wolfson, Acton, MA (US);
Richard Johnson, Harvard, MA (US);
Barbara Forman, Framingham, MA (US);
William Dupree, Westborough, MA (US);
Kim E. Theriault, Milford, NH (US);
Robert Boldi, Sudbury, MA (US);
Carol Wilson, Acton, MA (US);
Robert G. Hallowell, Nashua, NH (US);
Richard L. Delanoy, Acton, MA (US);
Marilyn Wolfson, Acton, MA (US);
Richard Johnson, Harvard, MA (US);
Barbara Forman, Framingham, MA (US);
William Dupree, Westborough, MA (US);
Kim E. Theriault, Milford, NH (US);
Robert Boldi, Sudbury, MA (US);
Carol Wilson, Acton, MA (US);
Robert G. Hallowell, Nashua, NH (US);
Richard L. Delanoy, Acton, MA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
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.
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