Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft as a space-based project is able to conduct continuous monitoring of the Sun. The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) instrument on SDO, in particular, provides continuum images and magnetograms with a cadence of under 1 minute. SDO/HMI's spatial resolution is only about 1”, which makes it impossible to perform a good analysis on the subarcsecond scale. On the other hand, larger aperture ground-based telescopes such as the Goode Solar Telescope (GST) at the Big Bear Solar Observatory are able to achieve a better resolution (16 times better than SDO/HMI). However, ground-based telescopes like GST have limitations in terms of observation time, which can only make observations during the day in clear sky condition. The purpose of this study is to make attempts in improving the spatial resolution of images captured by HMI beyond the diffraction limit of the telescope by employing the Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks algorithm (cGAN). The cGAN model was trained using 1800 pairs of HMI and GST sunspot images. This method successfully reconstruct HMI images with a spatial resolution close to GST images, this is supported by ∼62% increase in the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) value and ∼90% decrease in the mean squared error (MSE) value. The higher resolution sunspot images produced by this model can be useful for further Solar Physics studies.


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    Title :

    Improving spatial resolution of sunspot HMI images using conditional generative adversarial networks



    Conference:

    THE 9TH INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON AEROSPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY – ISAST 2022 ; 2022 ; Bogor, Indonesia


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2023-12-11


    Size :

    8 pages





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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