Abstract:

According to the criteria of the identification of mesoscale convective system (MCS),this paper researches on identifying and tracking MCS automatically by means of image processing and fuzzy pattern recognition technology.The SUSAN edge detector is used to extract the boundary contour,thus realizing cloud tracking via building tracking templates with brightness temperature histograms and multiple cloud cluster characteristics.The experiments on tracking MCS during the time 12 to 17 hour of May 10,2014 show that the method has the ability of identifying MCS automatically and quickly and tracking MCS of multitime effectively.

Key words: MCS;image processing;brightness temperature histogram;close degree