Remote discrimination of clouds using a neural network

摘要

Abstract: Cloud classification is a key input to global climate models. Cloud spectra are typically mixed, however, thus difficult to classify using the maximum likelihood rule. In contrast to maximum likelihood, a densely interconnected, trained neural network can form powerful generalizations that distinguish unique statistical trends among otherwise ambiguous spectral response patterns. Accordingly, cloud classification accuracies produced by a neural network can exceed accuracies produced using the maximum likelihood criterion. !15