Monday, January 5, 2015

FORECASTING THE SUN’S FURY: HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CAN PREDICT SOLAR


This is a visualization of all of the solar flares observed by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Plotted with D3, this stereographic projection of the Sun onto a plane shows X-class flares as red, M-class flares as green, and C-class flares as yellow.

Predicting flares and other solar activity is one of the goals of SDO. But how do you predict a solar flare? The solution lies in machine learning algorithms. In a blog post, solar physicist Monica Bobra discusses how machine learning can be used to predict solar flares.


Article: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2014/12/12/forecasting-the-suns-fury-how-artificial-intelligence-can-predict-solar-flares/

Interactive plot of solar flares:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mapping-solar-flares-interactive/

Image: A plot of solar flares. (Credit: Monica Bobr
a and Chau Dang)

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