This paper proposes a multimodal and multi-task deep-learning model for instantaneous precipitation rate estimation. Using both thermal infrared satellite radiometer and automatic rain gauge measurements as input, our encoder–decoder convolutional neural network performs a multiscale analysis of these two modalities to estimate simultaneously the rainfall probability and the precipitation rate value. Precipitating pixels are detected with a Probability Of Detection (POD) of 0.75 and a False Alarm Ratio (FAR) of 0.3. Instantaneous precipitation rate is estimated with a Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) of 1.6 mm/h.
Moraux, A, Dewitte, S, Cornelis, B & Munteanu, A 2019, 'Deep Learning for Precipitation Estimation from Satellite and Rain Gauges Measurements', Remote Sensing, vol. 11, no. 21, 2463.
Moraux, A., Dewitte, S., Cornelis, B., & Munteanu, A. (2019). Deep Learning for Precipitation Estimation from Satellite and Rain Gauges Measurements. Remote Sensing, 11(21), Article 2463.
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abstract = "This paper proposes a multimodal and multi-task deep-learning model for instantaneous precipitation rate estimation. Using both thermal infrared satellite radiometer and automatic rain gauge measurements as input, our encoder–decoder convolutional neural network performs a multiscale analysis of these two modalities to estimate simultaneously the rainfall probability and the precipitation rate value. Precipitating pixels are detected with a Probability Of Detection (POD) of 0.75 and a False Alarm Ratio (FAR) of 0.3. Instantaneous precipitation rate is estimated with a Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) of 1.6 mm/h.",
keywords = "rain detection, rain rate estimation, QPE, MSG SEVIRI, rain gauge, deep learning, convolutional neural network, semantic segmentation",
author = "Arthur Moraux and Steven Dewitte and Bruno Cornelis and Adrian Munteanu",
year = "2019",
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language = "English",
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