Automated image standardization of the synoptic solar observations at the Meudon Observatory

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4853, Issue , 2002, Pages 675-686

  Ipson, S S ^a   Zharkova, V V ^a   Benkhalil, A ^a   Zharkov, S I ^a   Aboudarham, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Image cleaning; Image correcting; Image processing; Limb fitting; Solar full disk

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; EDGE DETECTION; ERROR CORRECTION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; IMAGE QUALITY;

AUTOMATED IMAGE STANDARDIZATION; GEOMETRICAL DISTORTION; IMAGE CLEANING; IMAGE CORRECTING; SOLAR OBSERVATION; VIRTUAL SOLAR IMAGE;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0037854673     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.479499     Document Type: Conference Paper

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