Towards a New Era of Establishing Auroral Morphology Based on New Generation Imagers

极光的图像有着悠久的历史和科学 重要性 极光的第一次成像是手工完成的。 在这个世纪之初，摄影，那么一个新的 这项技术首次成功地用于研究 奥罗拉 Durign的IGY，S。查普曼和其他人建造了， 操作着全天空摄像机 根据这些摄像头费尔德斯坦 发现极光分布在沿着一条叫做 极光椭圆形 这笔赠款是建立一个新的形态学的基础上 基于卫星上的新一代成像器（例如DE， DMSP和维京海盗）。 DE和维京海盗图像的初步研究 研究这些高质量的数据需要一个 非常系统的方法。 在这项研究的过程中， 计划培养新一代的研究人员， 极光形态学

Images of the aurora have a long historical and scientific importance. The first imaging of the aurora was done by hand. At the beginning of this century, photography, then a new technology was successfully used for the first time to study the aurora. Durign the IGY, S. Chapman and others constructed and operated all-sky cameras. Based upon these cameras, Feldstein found that the aurora is distributed along a belt called the auroral oval. This grant is to establish a new morphology based upon the new generation of imagers aboard satellites (e.g. DE, DMSP, and Viking). A preliminary study of DE and Viking images indicates that the study of these high quality data requires a very systematic approach. During the course of this study, it is planned to train a new generation of researchers who will focus on auroral morphology.