Gust front detection in weather radar images by entropy matched functional template

We describe a new gust front detection method using functional template correction (FTC) and entropy. The new method provides better boundaries than does a previously developed method by our group (V. DeBrunner and E. Matusiak, 2003). Our proposed method described in this paper requires only one template for detection, thereby reducing the computational complexity and so yielding an algorithm that is more suitable for real time detection than that previously developed one.