Technique for automated recognition of sunspots on full-disk solar images

DOI10.1155/ASP.2005.2573MaRDI QIDQ2502706zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 13 September 2006

Published in EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1155/ASP.2005.2573

zbMATH Keywords

digital solar image, sunspotsedge-detectionlocal thresholdmorphological operatorssunspot area time series

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Pattern recognition, speech recognition (68T10) Computational methods for problems pertaining to astronomy and astrophysics (85-08)

Review text

Summary: A new robust technique is presented for automated identification of sunspots on full-disk white-light solar images obtained from SOHO/MDI instrument and Ca II K1 line images from the Meudon Observatory. Edge-detection methods are applied to find sunspot candidates followed by local thresholding using statistical properties of the region around sunspots. Possible initial oversegmentation of images is remedied with a median filter. The features are smoothed by using morphological closing operations and filled by applying watershed, followed by dilation operator to define regions of interest containing sunspots. A number of physical and geometrical parameters of detected sunspot features are extracted and stored in a relational database along with umbra-penumbra information in the form of pixel run-length data within a bounding rectangle. The detection results reveal very good agreement with the manual synoptic maps and a very high correlation (96\%) with those produced manually by NOAA Observatory, USA.

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