MeteorologyArtificial Intelligence
GEOMET's meteorology staff, in conjunction with our Artificial Intelligence (AI) Group, has designed and developed several PC-based expert systems (ES) to aid weather forecasters and planning personnel. GEOMET was an early leader in AI, developing one of the first expert system decision aids for forecasting. This system, developed in 1986, assisted weather personnel in the forecast of low visibility due to fog. GEOMET has researched AI applications in all areas of environmental sciences, water management and flood control, hazardous waste investigations, and neural networking applications.
GEOMET's AI Group is involved with all aspects of ES development, which include:
- Feasibility and design studies
- Selection of appropriate ES shell or programming language
- Knowledge acquisition (literature reviews and personal interviews)
- Knowledge-base representation (structure and code rules, and formalize database structure)
- User interface design and development
- ES testing and evaluation
- ES updates to include new data or functionality
Our primary target disciplines for ES-design and -development efforts have been environmental, with recent emphasis on meteorology.