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| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| tags: |
| - weathernowcasting |
| - computervision |
| - earthscience |
| - dataset |
| pretty_name: SONIC The Dataset for weather nowcasting |
| size_categories: |
| - 10K<n<100K |
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| # Dataset Card for SONIC |
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| Satellite Observations Nowcasting for Indian subContinent or SONIC is the first sattelite-only rainfall nowcasting dataset spanning over the Indian subcontinent (4 major regions). |
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| ## Dataset Details |
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| Regions Covered - Northern India(Jammu and Kashmir, `NI` folder), Southern India(Tamil nadu, Kerela, `SI` folder), North-Eastern India(7 Sisters, `7S` folder) and Easter India(Jharkhand, Odissa and West Bengal `JOB` folder) |
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| Spatial Resolution - 8km/pixel |
| Spatial Coverage - 896x896 km |
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| Temporal Resolution - 30 mins |
| Temporal Coverage - 2021-2024 |
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| ## Dataset Structure |
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| 4 folders, each based on a different region of the Indian Subcontinent. |
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| NI - 1565 events |
| 7S - 3885 events |
| JOB - 4250 events |
| SI - 3851 events |
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| An event is a set of 24 sattelite images over the region with rainfall selected on the basis of a statistical algorithm. |
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| Each image has 3 channels:- |
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| Channel 0 - Rain (Measured in mm/hr) |
| Channel 1 - Latitude (Degrees) |
| Channel 2 - Longitude(Degrees) |
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