Title :
Calculate the Energy of Active Regions and Solar Disk on Satellite Images for Real-Time Solar Flare Forecasting
Author :
Ahmed, O.W. ; Qahwaji, R. ; Colak, T. ; Ipson, S. ; DE WIT, T. DUDOK
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput., Inf. & Media, Univ. of Bradford, Bradford, UK
Abstract :
It is extremely important to design preventive measures to avoid or mitigate the influence of space weather. Severe solar activities could have a catastrophic impact on human activities in general i.e. damaging satellites, flight navigation, power distribution stations, telecommunications, etc. In this paper, a new model has been designed and implemented to calculate the energy of solar active regions and the solar disk energy. The method has been tested in a series of experiments and a relationship has been found between the calculated energies and solar flare events. A final automated real-time model will be designed later to provide flare forecasting, based on the proposed model.
Keywords :
solar atmosphere; solar flares; catastrophic impact; flight navigation; human activities; power distribution stations; real-time solar flare forecasting; satellite images; satellites damaging; solar active region energy; solar activities; solar disk energy; solar flare events; space weather; telecommunications; Artificial satellites; Earth; Humans; Load forecasting; Satellite broadcasting; Satellite navigation systems; Space technology; Sun; Weather forecasting; Wind; Ising model; active region energy; satellite images; solar disk energy;
Conference_Titel :
CyberWorlds, 2009. CW '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bradford
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4864-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3791-7