1. Solar Image Processing: A Multiscale View C. Alex Young NASA/GSFC C. Alex Young NASA/GSFC UCLA - IPAM (January 28, 2004)

2. Outline My motivations - where I got interested in multiscale methods. A gallery of data. A standard analysis - that surprised me. My approach - an attempt at something better. Some other problems. My motivations - where I got interested in multiscale methods. A gallery of data. A standard analysis - that surprised me. My approach - an attempt at something better. Some other problems.

3. Outline My motivations - where I got interested in multiscale methods. A gallery of data. A standard analysis - that surprised me. My approach - an attempt at something better. Some other problems. My motivations - where I got interested in multiscale methods. A gallery of data. A standard analysis - that surprised me. My approach - an attempt at something better. Some other problems.

4. The high energy sun. 20 Jan 2000 Solar Flare BATSE and COMPTEL (yellow) 1-30 MeV image and 100 keV /1-30 MeV lightcurves

5. The EUV/radio sun. Flare in EUV 171 Å pass band Flare in radio

6. Outline My motivations - where I got interested in multiscale methods. A gallery of data. A standard analysis - that surprised me. My approach - an attempt at something better. A suggestion by J. Starck Some other problems. My motivations - where I got interested in multiscale methods. A gallery of data. A standard analysis - that surprised me. My approach - an attempt at something better. A suggestion by J. Starck Some other problems.

7. From the photosphere to the corona.

8. The visible sun.

9. Sunspot evolution.

10. Swedish Vacuum Telescope.

12. Solar flare quake.

13. Solar oscillations.

14. Oscillations in the MDI high-res. f.o.v.

15. Helioseismology.

16. Sub-surface structure.

17. Backside imaging.

18. Longitudinal Magnetic field

20. 304 Å Sun

24. 195 Å Sun

26. 195 Å difference image of an EIT wave

27. Solar flare in UV cont. and 2 EUV passbands seen by TRACE

28. Filament eruptions in TRACE 171 Å passband

29. Magnetic loops in TRACE 171 Å passband

30. A flare in TRACE 1600 Å cont. and 171 Å pass band

31. Solar tornados

32. Largest flare ever recorded in 171 Å pass band.

34. The outer corona seen in white-light by LASCO C2 2-15 solar radii The outer corona seen in white-light by LASCO C2 2-15 solar radii

35. LASCO C3 7-30 solar radii

36. Active sun seen in LASCO C3

37. Outline My motivations - where I got interested in multiscale methods. A gallery of data. A standard analysis - that surprised me. My approach - an attempt at something better. Some other problems. My motivations - where I got interested in multiscale methods. A gallery of data. A standard analysis - that surprised me. My approach - an attempt at something better. Some other problems.

38. TRACE 195 A

40. Images at the time of the first brightening in the TRACE movie. (Gallagher 2003) Top panels: TRACE 195 Å difference images created by subtracting each image from a frame taken at 00:42:30 UT. Bottom panels: LASCO C2 and C3 images showing the similar morphology of the eruption as it propagates away from the solar surface. (Gallagher 2003)

41. A Standard Analysis

42. Outline My motivations - where I got interested in multiscale methods. A gallery of data. A standard analysis - that surprised me. My approach - an attempt at something better. Some other problems. My motivations - where I got interested in multiscale methods. A gallery of data. A standard analysis - that surprised me. My approach - an attempt at something better. Some other problems.

43. scale = 2 scale = 4 scale = 8 scale = 16

44. The top image shows the 30 multiscale edges at scale 8 (green) and 16 (red) over the image at 00:46:34 UT. The bottom images zoom in on the fronts. The top image shows the 30 multiscale edges at scale 8 (green) and 16 (red) over the image at 00:46:34 UT. The bottom images zoom in on the fronts. A set of edges from 00:46:34 UT to 01:01:58 UT at 2 scales

45. Following a front in TRACE.

46. Outline My motivations - where I got interested in multiscale methods. A gallery of data. A standard analysis - that surprised me. My approach - an attempt at something better. Some other problems. My motivations - where I got interested in multiscale methods. A gallery of data. A standard analysis - that surprised me. My approach - an attempt at something better. Some other problems.

47. high-energy solar flare imaging

49. Sunspot Classification Multifractal measure ? Shapelets ?

50. EIT Calibration calibration lamp for flat field and filter grid. Wavelets, Ridgelets, and Curvelets representation?

51. EIT 284 Å images Cosmic Rays, Bright Points, Coronal Holes.

52. Large increase in data volume. 1 passband x 136 images x (1 Mb) = 136 Mb 4 passbands x 1440 images x (16.6 Mbs) = 95.6 Gbs 1 passband x 136 images x (1 Mb) = 136 Mb 4 passbands x 1440 images x (16.6 Mbs) = 95.6 Gbs Data from just EUV imaging Data from the entire spacecraft increases from ~1 Gbyte/day to ~1 Tbyte/day

53. The sun in STEREO Tomography in space, reconstructing a 3-D view with two spacecraft