The solar surveillance program at the Kanzelhoehe Solar Observatory: new facilities for high speed digital imaging and dynamic event tracking
Abstract
The Kanzelhoehe Solar Observatory (Austria) has been devoted to multiwavelength synoptic observations of the sun for a long time in the frame of a long-term Solar Surveillance Program. Recently the observing capabilities were boosted by two new instruments for full-disk imaging: a digital H-alpha camera and a Magneto-Optical Filter (MOF) system. In this frame, we sketch the feasibility of a fully digital flare survey and a quasi-real time analysis system based on an artificial neural network, which might be relevant to the prediction of solar events affecting the solar-terrestrial environment.
- Publication:
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Proceedings of the ESA Workshop on Space Weather
- Pub Date:
- 1999
- Bibcode:
- 1999WPP...155..321M
- Keywords:
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- SOLAR SURVEILLANCE;
- DIGITAL IMAGING;
- NEURAL NETWORKS