Active Region Detection and Verification With the Solar Feature Catalogue

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May 2006

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Solar Physics, Volume 235, Issue 1-2, pp. 87-106

Physics

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We describe the automated extraction of active regions (ARs) or plages from the European Grid of Solar Observations (EGSO) Solar Feature Catalogue using a region-growing technique. In this work, Hα and Ca ii K3 solar images from the Meudon Observatory and EUV solar images from the SOHO/EIT instrument were used. For better detection accuracy, the statistical properties of each quarter of a full disk solar image are used to define local intensity thresholds for an initial segmentation that helps to define AR seeds. Median filtering and morphological operations are applied to the resulting binary image in order to remove noise and to merge broken regions. The centroids of each labelled region are used as seeds, from which a region-growing procedure starts. Statistics-based local thresholding is also applied to compute upper- and lower- threshold intensity values defining the spatial extents of the regions. The detection results obtained with the resulting automated thresholding and region-growing (ATRG) procedure are compared day-by-day with the synoptic maps manually generated by the Meudon Observatory and NOAA for 2 months in 2002 and more coarsely over a 5-year period. The moderate correlation found between our detection results and those produced manually on the other data sets reveals a need for a unified active region definition. As an application of the SFC for ARs we present the tracking of the active region AR NOAA 10484 during its appearance on the solar disk from 19 26 October 2003 and compare its intensity variations for Hα and Fe xii 195 Å wavelengths.

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