Identifying Aerosol Subtypes from CALIPSO Lidar Profiles Using Deep Machine Learning
The Cloud–Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP), on-board the Cloud–Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) platform, is an elastic backscatter lidar that has been providing vertical profiles of the spatial, optical, and microphysical properties of clouds...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:89fb78b017494d2a9156949f357289c6 2023-05-15T16:01:19+02:00 Identifying Aerosol Subtypes from CALIPSO Lidar Profiles Using Deep Machine Learning Shan Zeng Ali Omar Mark Vaughan Macarena Ortiz Charles Trepte Jason Tackett Jeremy Yagle Patricia Lucker Yongxiang Hu David Winker Sharon Rodier Brian Getzewich 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12010010 https://doaj.org/article/89fb78b017494d2a9156949f357289c6 EN eng MDPI AG https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/12/1/10 https://doaj.org/toc/2073-4433 doi:10.3390/atmos12010010 2073-4433 https://doaj.org/article/89fb78b017494d2a9156949f357289c6 Atmosphere, Vol 12, Iss 10, p 10 (2020) CALIPSO CALIOP aerosol subtype convolutional neural networks machine learning Meteorology. Climatology QC851-999 article 2020 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12010010 2022-12-31T00:37:10Z The Cloud–Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP), on-board the Cloud–Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) platform, is an elastic backscatter lidar that has been providing vertical profiles of the spatial, optical, and microphysical properties of clouds and aerosols since June 2006. Distinguishing between feature types (i.e., clouds vs. aerosol) and subtypes (e.g., ice clouds vs. water clouds and dust aerosols from smoke) in the CALIOP measurements is currently accomplished using layer-integrated measurements acquired by co-polarized (parallel) and cross-polarized (perpendicular) 532 nm channels and a single 1064 nm channel. Newly developed deep machine learning (DML) semantic segmentation methods now have the ability to combine observations from multiple channels with texture information to recognize patterns in data. Instead of focusing on a limited set of layer integrated values, our new DML feature classification technique uses the full scope of range-resolved information available in the CALIOP attenuated backscatter profiles. In this paper, one of the convolutional neural networks (CNN), SegNet, a fast and efficient DML model, is used to distinguish aerosol subtypes directly from the CALIOP profiles. The DML method is a 2D range bin-to-range bin aerosol subtype classification algorithm. We compare our new DML results to the classifications generated by CALIOP’s 1D layer-to-layer operational retrieval algorithm. These two methods, which take distinctly different approaches to aerosol classification, agree in over 60% of the comparisons. Higher levels of agreement are found in homogeneous scenes containing only a single aerosol type (i.e., marine, stratospheric aerosols). Disagreement between the two techniques increases in regions containing mixture of different aerosol types. The multi-dimensional texture information leveraged by the DML method shows advantages in differentiating between aerosol types based on their classification scores, as well as in ... Article in Journal/Newspaper DML Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Atmosphere 12 1 10 |
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The Cloud–Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP), on-board the Cloud–Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) platform, is an elastic backscatter lidar that has been providing vertical profiles of the spatial, optical, and microphysical properties of clouds and aerosols since June 2006. Distinguishing between feature types (i.e., clouds vs. aerosol) and subtypes (e.g., ice clouds vs. water clouds and dust aerosols from smoke) in the CALIOP measurements is currently accomplished using layer-integrated measurements acquired by co-polarized (parallel) and cross-polarized (perpendicular) 532 nm channels and a single 1064 nm channel. Newly developed deep machine learning (DML) semantic segmentation methods now have the ability to combine observations from multiple channels with texture information to recognize patterns in data. Instead of focusing on a limited set of layer integrated values, our new DML feature classification technique uses the full scope of range-resolved information available in the CALIOP attenuated backscatter profiles. In this paper, one of the convolutional neural networks (CNN), SegNet, a fast and efficient DML model, is used to distinguish aerosol subtypes directly from the CALIOP profiles. The DML method is a 2D range bin-to-range bin aerosol subtype classification algorithm. We compare our new DML results to the classifications generated by CALIOP’s 1D layer-to-layer operational retrieval algorithm. These two methods, which take distinctly different approaches to aerosol classification, agree in over 60% of the comparisons. Higher levels of agreement are found in homogeneous scenes containing only a single aerosol type (i.e., marine, stratospheric aerosols). Disagreement between the two techniques increases in regions containing mixture of different aerosol types. The multi-dimensional texture information leveraged by the DML method shows advantages in differentiating between aerosol types based on their classification scores, as well as in ... |
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Shan Zeng Ali Omar Mark Vaughan Macarena Ortiz Charles Trepte Jason Tackett Jeremy Yagle Patricia Lucker Yongxiang Hu David Winker Sharon Rodier Brian Getzewich |
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Shan Zeng Ali Omar Mark Vaughan Macarena Ortiz Charles Trepte Jason Tackett Jeremy Yagle Patricia Lucker Yongxiang Hu David Winker Sharon Rodier Brian Getzewich |
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Identifying Aerosol Subtypes from CALIPSO Lidar Profiles Using Deep Machine Learning |
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Identifying Aerosol Subtypes from CALIPSO Lidar Profiles Using Deep Machine Learning |
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Identifying Aerosol Subtypes from CALIPSO Lidar Profiles Using Deep Machine Learning |
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Identifying Aerosol Subtypes from CALIPSO Lidar Profiles Using Deep Machine Learning |
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Identifying Aerosol Subtypes from CALIPSO Lidar Profiles Using Deep Machine Learning |
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identifying aerosol subtypes from calipso lidar profiles using deep machine learning |
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