[GRASSLIST:7038] Re: calculating center of intensity

[Hamish]

> I purposely threw in that caveat because I assumed that a human would 
> have to decide what a storm pattern was. If an algorithm automatically
> found storm cells of contiguous positive rainfall values, there might
> be  splinter cells a meteorologist would consider part of the same
> pattern.  Ergo, I would expect the user to zoom to a region with a
> single rain  event and mask out any areas they didn't consider part of
> that storm. 

... and then there's the whole fairly mature field of machine vision
which is dedicated to doing just that sort of thing in an automated way.


Hamish