A Method of Identifying Thunderstorm Clouds in Satellite Cloud Image Based on Clustering
Lili He1,2, Dantong Ouyang1,2, Meng Wang1,2, Hongtao Bai1,2, Qianlong Yang1,2, Yaqing Liu3,4, Yu Jiang1,2,*
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.57, No.3, pp. 549-570, 2018, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2018.03840
Abstract In this paper, the clustering analysis is applied to the satellite image segmentation, and a cloud-based thunderstorm cloud recognition method is proposed in combination with the strong cloud computing power. The method firstly adopts the fuzzy C-means clustering (FCM) to obtain the satellite cloud image segmentation. Secondly, in the cloud image, we dispose the ‘high-density connected’ pixels in the same cloud clusters and the ‘low-density connected’ pixels in different cloud clusters. Therefore, we apply the DBSCAN algorithm to the cloud image obtained in the first step to realize cloud cluster knowledge. Finally, using the method More >