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The impact of soiling on solar panels is an important and well-studied problem in renewable energy sector. In this paper, we present the first convolutional neural network (CNN) based approach for solar panel soiling and defect analysis.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Sachin Mehta , Amar P. Azad , Saneem A. Chemmengath , Vikas Raykar , Shivkumar Kalyanaraman

Craters are among the most studied geomorphic features in the Solar System because they yield important information about the past and present geological processes and provide information about the relative ages of observed geologic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-07 Joseph Paul Cohen , Henry Z. Lo , Tingting Lu , Wei Ding

Many phenomena taking place in the solar photosphere are controlled by plasma motions. Although the line-of-sight component of the velocity can be estimated using the Doppler effect, we do not have direct spectroscopic access to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 A. Asensio Ramos , I. S. Requerey , N. Vitas

Seismic structure inversions have been used to study the solar interior for decades. With the high-precision frequencies obtained using data from the Kepler mission, it has now become possible to study other solar-like oscillators using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Lynn Buchele , Earl P. Bellinger , Saskia Hekker , Sarbani Basu

Coronal holes (CHs) are magnetically open regions that allow hot coronal plasma to escape from the Sun and form the high-speed solar wind. This wind can interact with Earth's magnetic field. For this reason, developing an accurate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Jeremy A. Grajeda , Laura E. Boucheron , Michael S. Kirk , Andrew Leisner , C. Nick Arge , Jaime A. Landeros

Understanding sequential information is a fundamental task for artificial intelligence. Current neural networks attempt to learn spatial and temporal information as a whole, limited their abilities to represent large scale spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Bo Pang , Kaiwen Zha , Hanwen Cao , Jiajun Tang , Minghui Yu , Cewu Lu

Accurate, reliable solar flare prediction is crucial for mitigating potential disruptions to critical infrastructure, while predicting solar flares remains a significant challenge. Existing methods based on heuristic physical features often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shunya Nagashima , Komei Sugiura

As a part of NASA's Heliophysics System Observatory (HSO) fleet of satellites,the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has continuously monitored the Sun since2010. Ultraviolet (UV) and Extreme UV (EUV) instruments in orbit, such asSDO's…

Coronal Holes (CHs) are large-scale, low-density regions in the solar atmosphere which may expel high-speed solar wind streams that incite hazardous, geomagnetic storms. Coronal and solar wind models can predict these high-speed streams and…

Telescopes such as the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory, a NASA satellite, collect massive streams of high resolution images of the Sun through multiple wavelength filters. Reconstructing pixel-by-pixel…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-15 Nathan M Stein , David A van Dyk , Vinay L Kashyap

The solar interior is filled with turbulent thermal convection, which plays a key role in the energy and momentum transport and the generation of the magnetic field. The turbulent flows in the solar interior cannot be optically detected due…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Hiroyuki Masaki , Hideyuki Hotta

The application of machine learning in solar physics has the potential to greatly enhance our understanding of the complex processes that take place in the atmosphere of the Sun. By using techniques such as deep learning, we are now in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 A. Asensio Ramos , M. C. M. Cheung , I. Chifu , R. Gafeira

The solar corona is host to a continuous flow of propagating disturbances (PD). These are continuous and ubiquitous across broad regions of the corona, including the quiet Sun. The aim of this paper is to present an improved, efficient…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Huw Morgan , Marianna Korsos

Image super-resolution has been an important subject in image processing and recognition. Here, we present an attention-aided convolutional neural network (CNN) for solar image super-resolution. Our method, named SolarCNN, aims to enhance…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-28 Chunhui Xu , Jason T. L. Wang , Haimin Wang , Haodi Jiang , Qin Li , Yasser Abduallah , Yan Xu

Operational flare forecasting aims at providing predictions that can be used to make decisions, typically at a daily scale, about the space weather impacts of flare occurrence. This study shows that video-based deep learning can be used for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-13 Sabrina Guastavino , Francesco Marchetti , Federico Benvenuto , Cristina Campi , Michele Piana

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are space weather phenomena capable of causing significant disruptions to both space- and ground-based infrastructure. The timely and accurate detection and prediction of CMEs is a crucial steps towards…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-16 Maike Bauer , Justin Le Louëdec , Tanja Amerstorfer , Luke Barnard , David Barnes , Helmut Lammer

Coronal rain is the most dramatic cooling phenomenon of the solar corona and an essential diagnostic tool for the coronal heating properties. A puzzling feature of the solar corona, besides the heating, is its EUV filamentary structure and…

Clouds and aerosols provide unique insight into the chemical and physical processes of gas-giant planets. Mapping and characterizing the spectral features indicative of the cloud structure and composition enables an understand-ing of a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Ingo P. Waldmann , Caitlin A. Griffith

We developed an automated pattern recognition code that is particularly well suited to extract one-dimensional curvi-linear features from two-dimensional digital images. A former version of this {\sl Oriented Coronal CUrved Loop Tracing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-05 Markus J. Aschwanden , Bart De Pontieu , Eugene A. Katrukha

The increasing adoption of solar energy necessitates advanced methodologies for monitoring and maintenance to ensure optimal performance of solar panel installations. A critical component in this context is the accurate segmentation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Sankarshanaa Sagaram , Krish Didwania , Laven Srivastava , Aditya Kasliwal , Pallavi Kailas , Ujjwal Verma