Technique for Automated Recognition of Sunspots on Full-Disk Solar Images

<p/> <p>A new robust technique is presented for automated identification of sunspots on full-disk white-light (WL) 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 b...

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Main Authors: Zharkov S, Zharkova V, Ipson S, Benkhalil A
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2005-01-01
Series:EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/ASP.2005.2573