On Oct. 29, at the 2026 Fengyun Satellite User Conference, China released its first extreme-weather artificial intelligence models, pushing Fengyun satellite applications from 'seeing the present' to 'predicting the future.'
The typhoon intelligent cloud-image interpretation model fuses multi-channel satellite imagery and can analyze a typhoon's position, structure, intensity and evolution, generating an interpretation text every 15 minutes in just 27 seconds, covering seven typhoon features across more than 20 real-time products.
The severe-convection nowcasting model uses two hours of Fengyun-4 observations to forecast the next four hours of cloud evolution, decomposing cloud movement into bulk system motion and local birth-decay, extending warning lead time to four hours.
The releases were paired with an AI satellite meteorology innovation team of 49 scholars from 12 institutions, focused on multimodal representation and extreme-weather monitoring.
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