Broad-UNet: Multi-scale feature learning for nowcasting tasks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06442v1
• Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 11:06:44 GMT
• Title: Broad-UNet: Multi-scale feature learning for nowcasting tasks
• Authors: Jesus Garcia Fernandez, Siamak Mehrkanoon
• Abstract summary: We treat the nowcasting problem as an image-to-image translation problem using satellite imagery. We introduce Broad-UNet, a novel architecture based on the core UNet model, to efficiently address this problem. The proposed model is applied on two different nowcasting tasks, i.e. precipitation maps and cloud cover nowcasting.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Weather nowcasting consists of predicting meteorological components in the short term at high spatial resolutions. Due to its influence in many human activities, accurate nowcasting has recently gained plenty of attention. In this paper, we treat the nowcasting problem as an image-to-image translation problem using satellite imagery. We introduce Broad-UNet, a novel architecture based on the core UNet model, to efficiently address this problem. In particular, the proposed Broad-UNet is equipped with asymmetric parallel convolutions as well as Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP) module. In this way, The the Broad-UNet model learns more complex patterns by combining multi-scale features while using fewer parameters than the core UNet model. The proposed model is applied on two different nowcasting tasks, i.e. precipitation maps and cloud cover nowcasting. The obtained numerical results show that the introduced Broad-UNet model performs more accurate predictions compared to the other examined architectures.

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