The invention belongs to the technical field of meteorological prediction. Aiming at solving the problems of the large meteorological staff labor intensity, complex operation steps and long positioning time which exist in a method for determining a
typhoon center manually, the invention provides a method for performing
typhoon location on a current
satellite image according to a history
satellite image. The method comprises extracting an SIFT characteristic of the history
satellite image, intercepting a search region, a side length of which is L+2*(T*60 / P), on the current
satellite image, extracting an SIFT characteristic of the search region then, performing characteristic matching on the history
satellite image and the search region using an SIFT
algorithm, removing a wrong matching relationship based on time-space consistency, performing screening on characteristic points through
uniform rotation distribution then, traversing the search region, and determining the
typhoon center. Automatic positioning of typhoon is achieved, typhoon positioning steps are simplified, the meteorological staff's
workload is reduced, and typhoon positioning time is shortened.