Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2022, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (11): 3380-3387.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2022.11.12

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Weather signal detection for dual polarization weather radar based on RCNN

Yongxing GAO1, Xudong WANG1,*, Ling WANG1, Daiyin ZHU1, Jun GUO1, Fanwang MENG2   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Radar Imaging and Microwave Photonics of the Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
    2. Leihua Electronic Technology Institute, Aviation Industry Corporation of China, Wuxi 214063, China
  • Received:2021-05-13 Online:2022-10-26 Published:2022-10-29
  • Contact: Xudong WANG

Abstract:

To detect weather signals submerged in ground clutter and biological clutter and improve the accuracy of quantitative precipitation, a weather signal detection algorithm based on residual convolutional neural network (RCNN) is proposed. Firstly, the collected polarization parameters: horizontal reflectivity, differential reflectivity, correlation coefficient, and differential propagation phase constant stack into a three dimensional array which are then divided into weather signals and clutter signals for preprocessing. Then, RCNN is developed and optimized, and the detailed structure of network is provided. Finally, the detection effect of the proposed algorithm is evaluated through several actual precipitation processes. As demonstrated by testing results, compared to support vector machines and convolutional neural network (CNN), the proposed algorithm has better detection effects on different elevation angles and measured data throughout the year.

Key words: dual polarization weather radar, residual convolutional neural network (RCNN), weather signal detection, deep learning

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