PAUNet: Precipitation Attention-based U-Net for rain prediction from satellite radiance data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.18306v1
• Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 07:22:55 GMT
• Title: PAUNet: Precipitation Attention-based U-Net for rain prediction from satellite radiance data
• Authors: P. Jyoteeshkumar Reddy, Harish Baki, Sandeep Chinta, Richard Matear, John Taylor
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces Precipitation Attention-based U-Net (PAUNet), a deep learning architecture for predicting precipitation from satellite radiance data. PAUNet is a variant of U-Net and Res-Net, designed to effectively capture the large-scale contextual information of multi-band satellite images. Trained on a substantial dataset from various European regions, PAUNet demonstrates notable accuracy with a higher Critical Success Index (CSI) score than the baseline model.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This paper introduces Precipitation Attention-based U-Net (PAUNet), a deep learning architecture for predicting precipitation from satellite radiance data, addressing the challenges of the Weather4cast 2023 competition. PAUNet is a variant of U-Net and Res-Net, designed to effectively capture the large-scale contextual information of multi-band satellite images in visible, water vapor, and infrared bands through encoder convolutional layers with center cropping and attention mechanisms. We built upon the Focal Precipitation Loss including an exponential component (e-FPL), which further enhanced the importance across different precipitation categories, particularly medium and heavy rain. Trained on a substantial dataset from various European regions, PAUNet demonstrates notable accuracy with a higher Critical Success Index (CSI) score than the baseline model in predicting rainfall over multiple time slots. PAUNet's architecture and training methodology showcase improvements in precipitation forecasting, crucial for sectors like emergency services and retail and supply chain management.

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