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Journal Article
A machine learning approach for classifying bird and insect radar echoes with S-band Polarimetric Weather Radar
2021
Overview
The S-bandWSR-88D weather radar is sensitive enough to observe biological scatterers like birds and insects. However, their non-spherical shapes and frequent collocation in the radar resolution volume create challenges in identifying their echoes. We propose a method of extracting bird (or insect) features by coherently averaging dual polarization measurements from multiple radar scans, containing bird (insect) migration. Additional features are also computed to capture aspect and range dependence, and the variation of these echoes over local regions. Next, ridge classifier and decision tree machine learning algorithms are trained, first only with the averaged dual pol inputs and then different combinations of the remaining features are added. The performance of all models for both methods, are analyzed using metrics computed from the test data. Further studies on different patterns of birds/insects, including roosting birds, bird migration and insect migration cases, are used to further investigate the generality of our models. Overall, the ridge classifier using only dual polarization variables was found to perform consistently well across all these tests. Our recommendation is that this classifier can be used operationally on the US Next-Generation Radars (NEXRAD), as a first step in classifying biological echoes. It would be used in conjunction with the existing Hydrometeor Classification Algorithm (HCA), where the HCA would first separate biological from non-biological echoes, then our algorithm would be applied to further separate biological echoes into birds and insects. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to train a machine learning classifier that is capable of detecting diverse patterns of bird and insect echoes, based on dual polarization variables at each range gate.
