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Wind Field Retrieval and Display for Doppler Radar Data

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Doppler radars are useful facilities for weather data gathering. In this paper, we propose a visualization pipeline to extract and display horizontal wind fields for Doppler radar data. At first, the input radar data are filtered with adaptive filters to reduce noise and enhance features. Then the horizontal wind field is computed by using a hierarchical optical flow method. In the visualization stage, a multi-level streamline construction method is employed to generate evenly-spaced streamlines to reveal the wind field structures.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung City, Taiwan, 202

    Shyh-Kuang Ueng & Yu-Chong Chiang

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. Digital Image Research Center, Kingston University, London, UK

    Paolo Remagnino

  6. Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, P.O. Box 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA

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  7. Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida, P.O. Box, FL 32611-6120, Gainsville, USA

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Ueng, SK., Chiang, YC. (2008). Wind Field Retrieval and Display for Doppler Radar Data. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5358. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89639-5_17

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