On October 29, the first batch of Fengyun meteorological-satellite extreme-weather artificial-intelligence models was officially released at the 2026 Fengyun Satellite Users Conference, CCTV News reported. The release advances Fengyun satellite applications from "seeing the present clearly" to "predicting the future."
The typhoon intelligent cloud-image interpretation model fuses multi-channel Fengyun imagery and related products to automatically analyze a typhoon's location, structure, intensity and evolution, generating interpretation text. Covering seven typhoon characteristics and more than 20 satellite real-time products, it runs every 15 minutes and needs only 27 seconds to produce an interpretation — for example analyzing Typhoon "Chulikai" (No. 26) to support monitoring and forecasting. A second severe-convection nowcasting model looks ahead by decomposing cloud evolution into overall movement and local birth-decay, pushing warning lead time to four hours.
The conference also introduced the "AI Satellite Meteorology Technology and Application Innovation Team" under the Xu Jianmin Meteorological Satellite Innovation Center, a 49-scholar group from 12 institutions jointly tackling multimodal satellite representation and extreme-weather monitoring.
Source: CCTV News
