Title :
Friendly access to radar images: advanced database hosting rain maps, patterns, their descriptors and models
Author :
Bonati, Apolonia Pawlina
Author_Institution :
Centro Studi Telecommunicazioni Spaziali CNR, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Abstract :
The database developed for the meteorological radar of Spino d´Adda in north Italy is presented as an example of automation in this field. The system has facilities for collection, retrieval, and modeling of radar images of rain as well as their components (individual patterns) and descriptors. The SPINO80-GRM software applies techniques of image analysis to radar rain data in order to identify and characterize the required data items (rain patterns) and then organizes them into a hierarchical, relational database. The component retrieval is based on a free combination of its attributes: some statistical investigations are also possible
Keywords :
computerised picture processing; geophysics computing; information retrieval systems; rain; relational databases; remote sensing by radar; SPINO80-GRM software; Spino d´Adda; data collection; data retrieval; database; descriptors; hierarchical relational database; image analysis; meteorological radar; modeling; models; north Italy; radar images; radar rain data; rain maps; rain patterns; user-friendly access; Automation; Communication system software; Hardware; Image databases; Image processing; Meteorological radar; Radar imaging; Rain; Reflectivity; Telecommunications;
Conference_Titel :
Telecommunications Symposium, 1990. ITS '90 Symposium Record., SBT/IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Rio de Janeiro
DOI :
10.1109/ITS.1990.175575
