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Representing Solar Active Regions with Triangulations

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The solar chromosphere consists of three classes which contribute differently to ultraviolet radiation reaching the earth. We describe a data set of solar images, means of segmenting the images into the constituent classes, and a novel high-level representation for compact objects based on a triangulated spatial ‘membership function’. Such representations are fitted in a variable-dimension Markov chain Monte Carlo scheme.

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  1. Machine Learning Systems Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, 91109, USA

    Michael J. Turmon & Saleem Mukhtar

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  1. Statistics Department, IACR-Rothamsted, AL5 2JQ, Harpenden, Herts, UK

    Roger Payne

  2. Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol, BS8 1TW, Bristol, UK

    Peter Green

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Turmon, M.J., Mukhtar, S. (1998). Representing Solar Active Regions with Triangulations. In: Payne, R., Green, P. (eds) COMPSTAT. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-01131-7_67

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-01131-7_67

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