Evaluating the performance of ground-based and remotely sensed near real-time rainfall fields from a hydrological perspective

2010 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 497-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yonas Ghile ◽  
Roland Schulze ◽  
Casey Brown
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Remotely Sensed

scholarly journals On-Board Georeferencing Using FPGA-Based Optimized Second-Order Polynomial Equation

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dequan Liu ◽  
Guoqing Zhou ◽  
Jingjin Huang ◽  
Rongting Zhang ◽  
Lei Shu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Coordinate Transformation ◽  
Polynomial Equation ◽  
Remotely Sensed ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Bilinear Interpolation ◽  
Remotely Sensed Imagery ◽  
Order Polynomial ◽  
Mean Square Errors

For real-time monitoring of natural disasters, such as fire, volcano, flood, landslide, and coastal inundation, highly-accurate georeferenced remotely sensed imagery is needed. Georeferenced imagery can be fused with geographic spatial data sets to provide geographic coordinates and positing for regions of interest. This paper proposes an on-board georeferencing method for remotely sensed imagery, which contains five modules: input data, coordinate transformation, bilinear interpolation, and output data. The experimental results demonstrate multiple benefits of the proposed method: (1) the computation speed using the proposed algorithm is 8 times faster than that using PC computer; (2) the resources of the field programmable gate array (FPGA) can meet the requirements of design. In the coordinate transformation scheme, 250,656 LUTs, 499,268 registers, and 388 DSP48s are used. Furthermore, 27,218 LUTs, 45,823 registers, 456 RAM/FIFO, and 267 DSP48s are used in the bilinear interpolation module; (3) the values of root mean square errors (RMSEs) are less than one pixel, and the other statistics, such as maximum error, minimum error, and mean error are less than one pixel; (4) the gray values of the georeferenced image when implemented using FPGA have the same accuracy as those implemented using MATLAB and Visual studio (C++), and have a very close accuracy implemented using ENVI software; and (5) the on-chip power consumption is 0.659 W. Therefore, it can be concluded that the proposed georeferencing method implemented using FPGA with second-order polynomial model and bilinear interpolation algorithm can achieve real-time geographic referencing for remotely sensed imagery.

scholarly journals Improved near real time surface wind resolution over the Mediterranean Sea

Ocean Science ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Bentamy ◽  
H.-L. Ayina ◽  
P. Queffeulou ◽  
D. Croize-Fillon ◽  
V. Kerbaol
Keyword(s):  
Wind Speed ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Surface Wind ◽  
Surface Wind Speed ◽  
Remotely Sensed ◽  
Wind Fields ◽  
Remotely Sensed Data ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
The Mediterranean

Abstract. Several scientific programs, including the Mediterranean Forecasting System Toward Environmental Predictions (MFSTEP project), request high space and time resolutions of surface wind speed and direction. The purpose of this paper is to focus on surface wind improvements over the global Mediterranean Sea, based on the blending near real time remotely sensed wind observations and ECMWF wind analysis. Ocean surface wind observations are retrieved from QuikSCAT scatterometer and from SSM/I radiometers available at near real time at Météo-France. Using synchronous satellite data, the number of remotely sensed data available for each analysis epoch (00:00 h; 06:00 h; 12:00 h; 18:00 h) is not uniformly distributed as a function of space and time. On average two satellite wind observations are available for each analysis time period. The analysis is performed by optimum interpolation (OI) based on the kriging approach. The needed covariance matrixes are estimated from the satellite wind speed, zonal and meridional component observations. The quality of the 6-hourly resulting blended wind fields on 0.25° grid are investigated trough comparisons with the remotely sensed observations as well as with moored buoy wind averaged wind estimates. The blended wind data and remotely wind observations, occurring within 3 h and 0.25° from the analysis estimates, compare well over the global basin as well as over the sub-basins. The correlation coefficients exceed 0.95 while the rms difference values are less than 0.30 m/s. Using measurements from moored buoys, the high-resolution wind fields are found to have similar accuracy as satellite wind retrievals. Blended wind estimates exhibit better comparisons with buoy moored in open sea than near shore.

scholarly journals Evaluation of TRMM rainfall estimates over a large Indian river basin (Mahanadi)

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1169-1201 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Kneis ◽  
C. Chatterjee ◽  
R. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Stream Flow ◽  
Remotely Sensed ◽  
Rainfall Runoff ◽  
Runoff Simulation ◽  
Rain Gage ◽  
Precipitation Estimates ◽  
Rainfall Estimates

Abstract. The paper examines the quality of satellite-based precipitation estimates for the Lower Mahanadi River Basin (Eastern India). The considered data sets known as 3B42 and 3B42-RT (version 7/7A) are routinely produced by the tropical rainfall measuring mission (TRMM) from passive microwave and infrared recordings. While the 3B42-RT data are disseminated in real time, the gage-adjusted 3B42 data set is published with a delay of some months. The quality of the two products was assessed in a two-step procedure. First, the correspondence between the remotely sensed precipitation rates and rain gage data was evaluated at the sub-basin scale. Second, the quality of the rainfall estimates was assessed by analyzing their performance in the context of rainfall-runoff simulation. At sub-basin level (4000 to 16 000 km2) the satellite-based areal precipitation estimates were found to be moderately correlated with the gage-based counterparts (R2 of 0.64–0.74 for 3B42 and 0.59–0.72 for 3B42-RT). Significant discrepancies between TRMM data and ground observations were identified at high intensity levels. The rainfall depth derived from rain gage data is often not reflected by the TRMM estimates (hit rate < 0.6 for ground-based intensities > 80 mm day−1). At the same time, the remotely sensed rainfall rates frequently exceed the gage-based equivalents (false alarm ratios of 0.2–0.6). In addition, the real time product 3B42-RT was found to suffer from a spatially consistent negative bias. Since the regionalization of rain gage data is potentially associated with a number of errors, the above results are subject to uncertainty. Hence, a validation against independent information, such as stream flow, was essential. In this case study, the outcome of rainfall–runoff simulation experiments was consistent with the above-mentioned findings. The best fit between observed and simulated stream flow was obtained if rain gage data were used as model input (Nash–Sutcliffe Index of 0.76–0.88 at gages not affected by reservoir operation). This compares to the values of 0.71–0.78 for the gage-adjusted TRMM 3B42 data and 0.65–0.77 for the 3B42-RT real-time data. Whether the 3B42-RT data are useful in the context of operational runoff prediction in spite of the identified problems remains a question for further research.

scholarly journals Development of international mirroring system for real-time web of meteorological satellite data

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1461-1476
Author(s):  
Praphan Pavarangkoon ◽  
Ken T. Murata ◽  
Kazunori Yamamoto ◽  
Kazuya Muranaga ◽  
Atsushi Higuchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Satellite Data ◽  
Remotely Sensed ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Third Generation ◽  
International Networks ◽  
Full Resolution ◽  
Remotely Sensed Images ◽  
Meteorological Satellite

AbstractThe third-generation meteorological satellites equipped with highly-improved imagers provide a huge amount of Earth observation data. Himawari-8 is the first unit of the Japan Meteorological Agency’s third generation of geostationary satellites. After its starting operation in 2015, there are several websites that provide remotely sensed images in real time. However, it is hard to develop a real-time and full-resolution website, due to the large amount of data to be handled. Himawari-8 real-time web is only one website that provides full-resolution remotely sensed images in real time. To reduce network traffic and increase the access speed of it from other countries out of Japan, mirror websites of each country are needed. In this paper, we propose a cost-effective mirroring system for the Himawari-8 real-time web. A mirroring model is introduced to avoid the problem of big data processing in the mirror websites. We adopt a file copy tool based on high-performance and flexible protocol (HpFP) to transfer meteorological satellite data from the Himawari-8 real-time web to the mirror websites. Our first target is Thailand, one of the most disaster-prone countries in South-East Asia. The mirror website is set up at an institution in Thailand connected via collaborative international networks, e.g., Japan Gigabit Network (JGN) and Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN). The results show that the proposed mirroring system is able to overcome the big data issue by reducing the central processing unit (CPU) usage in the mirror website and transferring remotely sensed image files at high speed over international networks even under packet loss conditions. This suggests that our mirroring system has a potential for deployment in other Asian and Oceanian countries.

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