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SOLAR PHYSICS RELIES HEAVILY ON PROBING THE SUN USING DIAGNOSTICS AVAILABLE ACROSS THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM IN ORDER TO SAMPLE MULTIPLE REGIONS OF THE SOLAR ATMOSPHERE. THE FORMATION MECHANISMS AT DIFFERENT WAVELENGTHS OFFER INSIGHTS INTO A VARIETY OF UNDERLYING PHYSICAL PROCESSES. SPACECRAFT ABOVE THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE ARE THE ONLY WAY TO ACCESS THE DIAGNOSTICS IN THE UV AND XRAY OR THEY CAN LEVERAGE THE ADVANTAGE OF CONTINUOUS SEEING-FREE COVERAGE. GROUND-BASED OBSERVATORIES INSTEAD CAN PROBE DIAGNOSTICS IN THE VISIBLE INFRARED AND RADIO WITH GREAT DETAIL AND FLEXIBILITY. PRECISELY COMBINING DATA FROM THESE DIFFERENT OBSERVATORIES HAS PROVED TO BE HIGHLY IMPORTANT TO INCREASING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE STRUCTURING AND DYNAMICS OF THE SOLAR ATMOSPHERE. BOTH SPACE- AND GROUND-BASED INSTRUMENTS CONTINUE TO INCREASE THEIR SPATIAL RESOLUTION TO BETTER RESOLVE PHYSICAL PROCESSES AT THEIR FUNDAMENTAL SCALES. THIS HOWEVER INCREASES THE REQUIREMENTS AND COMPLEXITY OF PRECISELY REMAPPING THESE DIFFERENT IMAGES ONTO A COMMON SPATIO-TEMPORAL REFERENCE. SOME OF THESE ISSUES ARE FOUND ACROSS ALL INSTRUMENTS SUCH AS OPTICAL DISTORTIONS OR TIME-VARYING JITTER AND ROLL. OTHER PROBLEMS MIGHT BE MORE SPECIFIC TO GROUND-BASED DATA INCLUDING ATMOSPHERIC REFRACTION TURBULENT IMAGE DISTORTION AND VARIABLE TRANSMISSION. GENERALLY THE COORDINATE DEFINITIONS GIVEN IN THE DATA HEADERS ARE NOT SUFFICIENTLY ACCURATE FOR MANY SCIENTIFIC NEEDS. THEREFORE IT IS NECESSARY TO USE THE DATA THEMSELVES OR OTHER CALIBRATIONS TO ACHIEVE THE CORRECT MAPPING AND GENERATE A PROPERLY ALIGNED DATASET SUITABLE FOR PROPER SCIENTIFIC EXPLOITATION. THIS CURRENTLY REQUIRES EXPERT KNOWLEDGE MANUAL CALIBRATION AND THE USE OF LIMITED-AVAILABILITY CODES WRITTEN IN A PROPRIETARY LANGUAGE. WE PROPOSE TO PRODUCE AN OPEN-SOURCE PROPERLY ENGINEERED TOOLKIT IN PYTHON THAT CAN ADDRESS SOME OF THESE ISSUES AND MAKE IT MORE FEASIBLE FOR THE BROADER COMMUNITY TO SEAMLESSLY COMBINE DATASETS FROM SATELLITES AND GROUND-BASED INSTRUMENTATION. THIS WOULD EMPOWER BROADER USE OF DATA FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES IN A ROBUST FASHION. THIS DEVELOPMENT WOULD USE RELY HEAVILY ON EXISTING PROJECTS SUCH AS SUNPY ASTROPY AND OTHERS TO HANDLE SOME OF THE KEY UNDERLYING TASKS OF DATA RETRIEVAL COORDINATE DEFINITION DATA-CUBE MANIPULATION. THIS TOOLKIT WILL PROVIDE TOOLS TO PERFORM SPECIFIC TASKS SUCH AS NON-RIGID ALIGNMENT BETWEEN IMAGES CORRECTION FOR PLATE-SCALE DISTORTIONS AND COMPENSATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC VARIATIONS. WE PLAN TO WORK WITH THE PYTHON IN HELIOPHYSICS COMMUNITY AND ENSURE THAT THE TOOLKIT WILL BE COMPLIANT WITH THEIR AGREED UPON SOFTWARE STANDARDS. THIS TOOLKIT WILL ALSO BE LEVERAGED IN THE ONGOING DEVELOPMENT OF AN OPEN-SOURCE VISUALIZATION TOOL THAT WILL ALLOW SPACECRAFT AND GROUND-BASED DATA TO BE EASILY VIEWED TOGETHER PROBING ALSO THE TEMPORAL AND SPECTRAL DIMENSIONS OF THE DATACUBES GENERATED BY DIFFERENT INSTRUMENTS. THIS WILL BE APPLIED ESPECIALLY TO DKIST OBSERVATIONS ALLOWING USERS TO JOINTLY EXPLORE THOSE COMPLEX DATA TOGETHER WITH DATA FROM A VARIETY OF NASA ASSETS (SDO IRIS HINODE PSP AND OTHERS). THIS VISUALIZATION TOOL WILL MAKE THE DATA MORE ACCESSIBLE WHILE THE PRECISE CO-ALIGNMENT OF THE DATA FROM VARIOUS SOURCES WILL ALLOW SCIENTIFICALLY IMPORTANT FEATURES TO BE IDENTIFIED MORE EFFICIENTLY. WITH ACCURATE CO-ALIGNMENT AND USER-FRIENDLY DATA MANIPULATION THIS WILL BE A KEY WAY FOR USERS TO IDENTIFY COMBINE AND EXPLORE DATA FROM MULTIPLE OBSERVATORIES.

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SOLAR PHYSICS RELIES HEAVILY ON PROBING THE SUN USING DIAGNOSTICS AVAILABLE ACROSS THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM IN ORDER TO SAMPLE MULTIPLE REGIONS OF THE SOLAR ATMOSPHERE. THE FORMATION MECHANISMS AT DIFFERENT WAVELENGTHS OFFER INSIGHTS INTO A VARIETY OF UNDERLYING PHYSICAL PROCESSES. SPACECRAFT ABOVE THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE ARE THE ONLY WAY TO ACCESS THE DIAGNOSTICS IN THE UV AND XRAY OR THEY CAN LEVERAGE THE ADVANTAGE OF CONTINUOUS SEEING-FREE COVERAGE. GROUND-BASED OBSERVATORIES INSTEAD CAN PROBE DIAGNOSTICS IN THE VISIBLE INFRARED AND RADIO WITH GREAT DETAIL AND FLEXIBILITY. PRECISELY COMBINING DATA FROM THESE DIFFERENT OBSERVATORIES HAS PROVED TO BE HIGHLY IMPORTANT TO INCREASING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE STRUCTURING AND DYNAMICS OF THE SOLAR ATMOSPHERE. BOTH SPACE- AND GROUND-BASED INSTRUMENTS CONTINUE TO INCREASE THEIR SPATIAL RESOLUTION TO BETTER RESOLVE PHYSICAL PROCESSES AT THEIR FUNDAMENTAL SCALES. THIS HOWEVER INCREASES THE REQUIREMENTS AND COMPLEXITY OF PRECISELY REMAPPING THESE DIFFERENT IMAGES ONTO A COMMON SPATIO-TEMPORAL REFERENCE. SOME OF THESE ISSUES ARE FOUND ACROSS ALL INSTRUMENTS SUCH AS OPTICAL DISTORTIONS OR TIME-VARYING JITTER AND ROLL. OTHER PROBLEMS MIGHT BE MORE SPECIFIC TO GROUND-BASED DATA INCLUDING ATMOSPHERIC REFRACTION TURBULENT IMAGE DISTORTION AND VARIABLE TRANSMISSION. GENERALLY THE COORDINATE DEFINITIONS GIVEN IN THE DATA HEADERS ARE NOT SUFFICIENTLY ACCURATE FOR MANY SCIENTIFIC NEEDS. THEREFORE IT IS NECESSARY TO USE THE DATA THEMSELVES OR OTHER CALIBRATIONS TO ACHIEVE THE CORRECT MAPPING AND GENERATE A PROPERLY ALIGNED DATASET SUITABLE FOR PROPER SCIENTIFIC EXPLOITATION. THIS CURRENTLY REQUIRES EXPERT KNOWLEDGE MANUAL CALIBRATION AND THE USE OF LIMITED-AVAILABILITY CODES WRITTEN IN A PROPRIETARY LANGUAGE. WE PROPOSE TO PRODUCE AN OPEN-SOURCE PROPERLY ENGINEERED TOOLKIT IN PYTHON THAT CAN ADDRESS SOME OF THESE ISSUES AND MAKE IT MORE FEASIBLE FOR THE BROADER COMMUNITY TO SEAMLESSLY COMBINE DATASETS FROM SATELLITES AND GROUND-BASED INSTRUMENTATION. THIS WOULD EMPOWER BROADER USE OF DATA FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES IN A ROBUST FASHION. THIS DEVELOPMENT WOULD USE RELY HEAVILY ON EXISTING PROJECTS SUCH AS SUNPY ASTROPY AND OTHERS TO HANDLE SOME OF THE KEY UNDERLYING TASKS OF DATA RETRIEVAL COORDINATE DEFINITION DATA-CUBE MANIPULATION. THIS TOOLKIT WILL PROVIDE TOOLS TO PERFORM SPECIFIC TASKS SUCH AS NON-RIGID ALIGNMENT BETWEEN IMAGES CORRECTION FOR PLATE-SCALE DISTORTIONS AND COMPENSATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC VARIATIONS. WE PLAN TO WORK WITH THE PYTHON IN HELIOPHYSICS COMMUNITY AND ENSURE THAT THE TOOLKIT WILL BE COMPLIANT WITH THEIR AGREED UPON SOFTWARE STANDARDS. THIS TOOLKIT WILL ALSO BE LEVERAGED IN THE ONGOING DEVELOPMENT OF AN OPEN-SOURCE VISUALIZATION TOOL THAT WILL ALLOW SPACECRAFT AND GROUND-BASED DATA TO BE EASILY VIEWED TOGETHER PROBING ALSO THE TEMPORAL AND SPECTRAL DIMENSIONS OF THE DATACUBES GENERATED BY DIFFERENT INSTRUMENTS. THIS WILL BE APPLIED ESPECIALLY TO DKIST OBSERVATIONS ALLOWING USERS TO JOINTLY EXPLORE THOSE COMPLEX DATA TOGETHER WITH DATA FROM A VARIETY OF NASA ASSETS (SDO IRIS HINODE PSP AND OTHERS). THIS VISUALIZATION TOOL WILL MAKE THE DATA MORE ACCESSIBLE WHILE THE PRECISE CO-ALIGNMENT OF THE DATA FROM VARIOUS SOURCES WILL ALLOW SCIENTIFICALLY IMPORTANT FEATURES TO BE IDENTIFIED MORE EFFICIENTLY. WITH ACCURATE CO-ALIGNMENT AND USER-FRIENDLY DATA MANIPULATION THIS WILL BE A KEY WAY FOR USERS TO IDENTIFY COMBINE AND EXPLORE DATA FROM MULTIPLE OBSERVATORIES. · GrantIndex