From: PANKIEWICZ%HYDRA%ZEUS@email.meto.govt.uk
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 1994 14:42:32 +0000 (GMT)

Name:          George Pankiewicz
Organisation:  UK Met. Office (Forecasting Research)
Interests:     Pattern recognition of clouds & cloud systems, satellite image 
               analysis, neural nets

Project:       Application of pattern recognition techniques to cloud detection
People:        George Pankiewicz & Richard Allam
Description:

We're interested in exploring the use of a wide range of pattern recognition 
techniques to analyse clouds and cloud systems from meteorological satellite 
image data. As a couple of examples, we'd like to develop systems that could 
provide automatic bogussing for NWP models, and distinguish meteorologically 
significant cloud such as 'dynamic' and 'convective'.

One of our intentions is to train a system to not only recognise individual 
cloud types, but to go through the hierarchy of meteorological objects to 
include conceptual models and processes. 

To begin, I've done a review/survey of numerous classical and AI, super- and 
unsupervised techniques; this is currently being written as an FR Division 
technical report. I've also written a noddy Perceptron cloud mask to get my
fingers dirty which, rather surprisingly (?), seems to work quite well.

The plan is to run a pilot study over the next few months to investigate some
of these techniques (particularly Multilayer Perceptrons and Kohonen nets),
and put together a basic system which will perform cloud classification, 
image segmentation and CM identification.

Please fell free to contact me for more, or to let me know of any similar work 
in this area! My background is in astronomical imaging systems (most recently
XUV), so I'm still at the relatively steep end of the learning curve.

      Dr. George Pankiewicz,
      Room R315,
      The Meteorological Office,
      London Road,
      Bracknell,
      Berkshire RG12 2SZ,
      United Kingdom.

      Tel: +44 344 854828
      Email: gspankiewicz@email.meto.govt.uk