Describing time varying diffuse patterns in weather satellite images

The paper describes the results of a programme of research aimed at developing a mechanism for identifying and describing particular cloud patterns in weather satellite images. The ability to automatically track a defined cloud formation across a time sequence of images would be very useful in the prediction of wind speed and direction, and the ability to register the way in which a cloud formation evolves with time would support forecasts of future weather events. The application of such techniques is not limited to weather satellite images, however, but can also be used in other fields, such as medical imaging, where non-static images are also to be found