Volunteer Develops Machine-Learning Tool to Identify Rare Clouds
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A volunteer built a machine-learning tool to help identify rare clouds as part of the NASA-supported Space Cloud Watch project. The effort asks people worldwide to submit camera images of clouds that are appearing more often and lower in the sky than before, so scientists can study the factors behind the change.
Certain kinds of clouds are misbehaving – appearing more often and lower in the sky than they used to. To help identify the factors influencing these changes, scientists have asked people around the world with cameras to submit fresh images of these clouds as a part of the NASA-supported Space Cloud Watch project.
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