Artificial Intelligence Can Forecast Damaging Solar Storms

The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured these views of the flare in the sun’s southern hemisphere on July 12, 2012. (Photo courtesy of NASA)

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to predict powerful radiation outbreaks, such as solar storms, up to 96 hours before they occur, according to Israeli researchers.

Yuval Reuveni of Ariel University’s department of physics and the Samaria and Jordan Rift R&D Center and computer science doctoral candidate Vlad Landa at the university say they have developed a new solar storm forecasting method, dubbed the Convolutional Neural Network.