Filament Recognition and Image Cleaning on Meudon Hα Spectroheliograms

Autor: Jean Aboudarham, N. Fuller, R. D. Bentley
Přispěvatelé: Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ingénieurs, Techniciens et Administratifs, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Physique solaire, Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL)
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Solar Physics
Solar Physics, 2005, 227, pp.61-73. ⟨10.1007/s11207-005-8364-1⟩
ISSN: 1573-093X
0038-0938
Popis: International audience; This paper presents the techniques developed for the automated detection of filaments on Meudon Halpha spectroheliograms, and, by extension, on any full-disk Halpha Sun observations. Some cleaning processes are first applied to the images to correct them from defects characteristic of the instrument. Indeed, these defects may lead to spurious detections. From the cleaned images, filament areas are then segmented using a region growing method which efficiently returns the full extent of these dark areas. The filaments are finally described by means of their pruned skeleton. This representation allows one to compare the automatically segmented filaments with those manually recorded for Meudon Synoptic Maps. The very good agreement observed on a representative set of images confirms that this method can effectively be used in the frame of the EGSO (European Grid of Solar Observations) project in order to produce a reliable catalog dedicated to solar features.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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