The twin satellites of the Stereo mission, to be launched mid-2006, will allow us to view the three-dimensional (3D) heliosphere for the first time and with an unprecedented combination of imaging and in situ experiments. Stereo will face the community with new problems that require 3D reconstruction tools.Many visualisation and analysis techniques have been developed for Stereo or are under development. They are listed on the Secchi 3D reconstruction web page. Yet there remains an important need for closer interaction between all these different initiatives, finding for examples ways how different approaches can be combined to improve the reconstruction. This has motivated the creation of a small team that would seek a better coordination among european contributions to Stereo while keeping a strong connection with the rest of the community.
This team will deliver a web-based interface with :The web interface will be made available during the Stereo-Secchi meeting that is planned to take place in Orsay a few months after the launch of Stereo.
- a collection of articles, books, images and benchmark data ses that are relevant to the 3D reconstruction of solar data. Although the focus will be on solar images from SECCHI, other instruments such as SWAVES will also be included. We believe that such a content management system (CMS) is important easing the access to the wealth of existing techniques on stereoscopy, most of us are unfamiliar with.
- a series of review articles, available electronically on the same web site. These articles will cover most of the different techniques for 3D reconstruction in a user-oriented approach, showing the merits and the pitfalls of each technique.
The members of our ISSI team are
Name Affiliation Frédéric Auchère IAS, Orsay, France Thierry Dudok de Wit (lead) LPCE, Orléans, France Jean-François Hochedez ROB, Brussels, Belgium Bernd Inhester MPS, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany Antoine Llebaria LAS, Marseille, France Angelos Vourlidas Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, USA Jean-Pierre Wuelser LMSAL, Palo Alto, USA
Date Event 13-15 April 2005 first team meeting (minutes of meeting) 2-4 May 2005 Stereo SEE meeting in Hamburg 26-28 October 2005 second team meeting (minutes of meeting) 3-5 November 2005 Solar image processing workshop II in Annapolis 15-17 March 2006 third team meeting (minutes of meeting) 6-8 September 2006 Solar Image Processing workshop in Dublin 18-20 September 2006 Astronomical Data Analysis IV conference in Marseille 25 October 2006 successful launch of Stereo 5 - 9 March 2007 SECCHI consortium meeting in Orsay April 2007 last team meeting
• The Stereo project (JHUAPL, Laurel)
• 3D reconstruction for SECCHI (NRL, Washington)
• The Stereo mission home page (GSFC, Goddard)
• The Stereo SECCHI instruments (NRL, Washington)
• The Stereo SWAVES instruments (GSFC, Goddard)
• The Stereo IMPACT instruments (SSL, Berkeley)