Classification of weather conditions based on automatic weather station data using a multi-layer perceptron neural network

Weather is one of the important elements that greatly determines human activities, especially those related to economic factors. Therefore, understanding weather conditions using weather parameters as a reference is important for human life, so a method is needed to classify weather according to its category so that the information produced can be used for various needs. Determining weather conditions in an area will not run well without a reliable method that can analyze existing weather parameters. Therefore, in this study, the weather condition classification process was carried out using the multilayer perceptron algorithm, a type of neural network (NN) algorithm. All data analyzed were weather parameter data collected by mini weather stations placed on land. The weather parameters used were temperature, humidity, air pressure, wind speed, dew point, wind chill, daily rainfall, solar radiation, and UV index. This study was conducted in Palu city, Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. The classification process carried out by the multilayer perceptron algorithm was carried out on the Altair AI Studio application and produced an accuracy value of 93.87%, recall of 92.33%, and precision of 91.29%.