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Journal Articles Advances in Space Research Year : 2008

Segmentation of extreme ultraviolet solar images via multichannel fuzzy clustering

Abstract

The study of the variability of the solar corona and the monitoring of its traditional regions (Coronal Holes, Quiet Sun and Active Regions) are of great importance in astrophysics as well as in view of the Space Weather and Space Climate applications. Here we propose a multichannel unsupervised spatially constrained fuzzy clustering algorithm that automatically segments EUV solar images into Coronal Holes, Quiet Sun and Active Regions. Fuzzy logic allows to manage the various noises present in the images and the imprecision in the definition of the above regions. The process is fast and automatic. It is applied to SoHO–EIT images taken from February 1997 till May 2005, i.e. along almost a full solar cycle. Results in terms of areas and intensity estimations are consistent with previous knowledge. The method reveal the rotational and other mid-term periodicities in the extracted time series across solar cycle 23. Further, such an approach paves the way to bridging observations between spatially resolved data from imaging telescopes and time series from radiometers. Time series resulting form the segmentation of EUV coronal images can indeed provide an essential component in the process of reconstructing the solar spectrum.

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hal-01622430 , version 1 (24-10-2017)

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Vincent Barra, Véronique Delouille, Jean-François Hochedez. Segmentation of extreme ultraviolet solar images via multichannel fuzzy clustering. Advances in Space Research, 2008, 42 (5), pp.917 - 925. ⟨10.1016/j.asr.2007.10.021⟩. ⟨hal-01622430⟩
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