Issue |
A&A
Volume 571, November 2014
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Article Number | A42 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | The Sun | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424315 | |
Published online | 06 November 2014 |
Image compression in local helioseismology
1
Institut für Astrophysik, Georg-August Universität Göttingen,
37077
Göttingen,
Germany
e-mail:
loeptien@astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de
2
Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung,
Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 3,
37077
Göttingen,
Germany
Received: 30 May 2014
Accepted: 14 August 2014
Context. Several upcoming helioseismology space missions are very limited in telemetry and will have to perform extensive data compression. This requires the development of new methods of data compression.
Aims. We give an overview of the influence of lossy data compression on local helioseismology. We investigate the effects of several lossy compression methods (quantization, JPEG compression, and smoothing and subsampling) on power spectra and time-distance measurements of supergranulation flows at disk center.
Methods. We applied different compression methods to tracked and remapped Dopplergrams obtained by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory. We determined the signal-to-noise ratio of the travel times computed from the compressed data as a function of the compression efficiency.
Results. The basic helioseismic measurements that we consider are very robust to lossy data compression. Even if only the sign of the velocity is used, time-distance helioseismology is still possible. We achieve the best results by applying JPEG compression on spatially subsampled data. However, our conclusions are only valid for supergranulation flows at disk center and may not be valid for all helioseismology applications.
Key words: Sun: helioseismology / methods: data analysis
© ESO, 2014
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