A New Tool for Handling Astronomical Images

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Sep 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000ap%26ss.273..245r&link_type=abstract

Astrophysics and Space Science, v. 273, Issue 1/4, p. 245-256 (2000).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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A variety of software exists for the manipulation of astrophysical data. For example, we have the Astronomical Image Processing software (AIPS) which is used by astronomers. Other software like MATLAB are also widely used to manipulate the astrophysical images. We demonstrate that there are tremendous potentials for using the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to analyze astrophysical images at all frequencies. To our knowledge, celestial objects have not been studied so far using GIS. We have explored the possible use of a GIS to study the Sun and the southern sky (using data from the Mauritius Radio Telescope Low Resolution Survey and the PARKES Observatory). Most of the images at different frequencies available over the Internet were imported into a GIS software (IDRISI, Version 4.0) for the study. A number of operations supported by GIS software were used for our studies. For instance, Principal Component Analysis has been used on a set of Coronal White Light images in the tracking of the time evolution of Coronal Mass Ejections and in `cleaning' images, in integrated flux density computations of selected supernova remnants, and in supervised classification of solar images and supernova remnants.

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