The benefits of wavelets: a multiscale approach

r.t.james mcateer
(NASA/GSFC, CUA)

Abstract
Multiscale image processing techniques are now wide spread in solar physics. With the increase in data volume, and corresponding need for automated techniques, the use of wavelets and their lesser known counterparts (etc., curvelets, ridgelets) can only increase over the lifetime of STEREO. I present an overview of multiscale image processing to date, and discuss the possible future directions for solar physics. This will concentrate on coronagraph data, specifically COR1, but will also discuss EUVI and SoHO data, with reference to the CME on 25 Jan 2007. In this event, a slowly rising dark feature precedes the main CME and appears to be aligned perpendicular to the CME front. Various multiscale techniques are used to pull out these features