The SPOCA-suite: a software for extraction and tracking of Active Regions and Coronal Holes on EUV images (1208.1483v1)

Abstract: Precise localisation and characterization of active regions and coronal holes as observed by EUV imagers are crucial for a wide range of solar and helio-physics studies. We describe a segmentation procedure, the SPOCA-suite, that produces catalogs of Active Regions (AR) and Coronal Holes (CH) on SDO-AIA images. The method builds upon our previous work on 'Spatial Possibilistic Clustering Algorithm' (SPOCA) and substantially improve it in several ways. The SPOCA-suite is applied in near real time on AIA archive and produces entries into the AR and CH catalogs of the Heliophysics Event Knowledgebase (HEK) every four hours. We give an illustration of the use of SPOCA for determination of the CH filling factors. This reports is intended as a reference guide for the users of SPoCA output.