Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2010, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 16-22
Estimation of cloud cover parameters from METEOSAT-9
geostationary meteorological satellite data for day and night time
E.V. Volkova
, A.B. Uspensky
State Research Centre of Space Hydrometeorology Planeta, 123242, Moscow, B. Predtechensky per., 7
The advanced threshold method for automatic pixel-by-pixel classification of SEVIRI/ METEOSAT-9 data has been
developed that provides the estimation of cloud parameters as well as detection of precipitation zones together with
some severe weather phenomena of various intensity for day and night time. The training and testing of the proposed
technique have been carried out using the archive of synchronous satellite and ground-based meteorological
data for the various dates of years 2006-2009. The validation results for each of derived cloud parameters are discussed.
Keywords: SEVIRI instrument, METEOSAT-9, clouds, precipitation intensity, severe weather phenomena, cloud type, cloud top height, cloud water contents
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