论文信息 - Automatic monitoring of ash and meteorological clouds by Neural Networks

Automatic monitoring of ash and meteorological clouds by Neural Networks

Volcanic eruptions affect at different levels the population and economy of interested areas. Moreover, volcanic ash detection represents a key issue for aviation safety due to the harming effects on aircraft. For these reasons, an accurate and fast analysis of the data is needed to monitor the phenomena's evolution and to manage the risk mitigation phase. In this scenario, the introduction of an inversion approach based on Neural Networks (NNs) has significant interest to reduce the need of human interpretation of the ash detection maps as those generated by the application of brightness temperature difference approach. In this work we show that NNs algorithms are suitable for an accurate mapping of ash cloud on Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) images in a very cloudy scenario as the ones of 2010 Eyjafjallajökull and 2011 Grimsvötn eruptions.

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