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Transfer learning with weather radar

dc.contributor.authorGooch, S. Ryan, author
dc.contributor.authorChandrasekar, V., advisor
dc.contributor.authorCheney, Margaret, committee member
dc.contributor.authorChavéz, José, committee member
dc.contributor.authorSuryanarayanan, Sid, committee member
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-22T11:53:45Z
dc.date.available2022-06-15T11:53:45Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThis work presents the culmination of the doctoral research by the author in exploring modern methods of Data Discovery in weather radar data, improvements in the cyberinfrastructure concerning multi-dimensional gridded data, with a concentration on real-time data streaming, and experimental use cases involving real world datasets. Included in this work is a successful method for the classification of weather radar image data using convolutional neural networks, with inspiration drawn from the subfield of Transfer Learning in the Computer Vision community. Once this model was developed, it was deployed on single radar data from each of the radars in the CASA DFW network to assign labels to support a human-in-the-loop semi-supervised method for data discovery in the weather radar scans. This model has been furthermore applied to the WSR-88D network of dual-polarimetric weather radars in the United States to demonstrate the model's generalizability, and its utility in discovering phenomena of interest in vast datasets. This work discusses the end-to-end development of the data discovery system, with special focus on initial data labeling, choices and tradeos in model architecture, and training concerns in the machine learning model. This represents the rst published research known to the authors on utilizing the power of transfer learning to transfer the learning of high quality convolutional neural networks trained on photographic images to the weather radar image domain.
dc.format.mediumborn digital
dc.format.mediumdoctoral dissertations
dc.identifierGooch_colostate_0053A_15943.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/208552
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartof2020-
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dc.subjectdeep learning
dc.subjectradar
dc.subjectbig data
dc.subjectweather
dc.subjectmachine learning
dc.titleTransfer learning with weather radar
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thesis.degree.disciplineElectrical and Computer Engineering
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

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