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The solar chromosphere consists of three classes which contribute differently to ultraviolet radiation reaching the earth. We describe a data set of solar images, means of segmenting the images into the constituent classes, and a novel high-level representation for compact objects based on a triangulated spatial ‘membership function’. Such representations are fitted in a variable-dimension Markov chain Monte Carlo scheme.
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Turmon, M.J., Mukhtar, S. (1998). Representing Solar Active Regions with Triangulations. In: Payne, R., Green, P. (eds) COMPSTAT. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-01131-7_67
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