A large-scale dataset and baseline for forecasting clouds
The CloudCast dataset contains 70080 images with 11 different cloud types for multiple layers of the atmosphere annotated on a pixel level. The dataset has a spatial resolution of 928 x 1530 pixels recorded with 15-min intervals for the period 2017-2018, where each pixel represents an area of 3×3 km.To enable standardized datasets for benchmarking computer vision methods, we include a full-resolution dataset centered and projected dataset over Europe (728×728). To support small-scale experiments and analysis, we also include a downsampled low-resolution dataset 128×128 (15×15 km), which is significantly smaller in size compared to the full dataset.