Solar Image Processing Workshop III

The 3rd Solar Image Processing Workshop (SIPWIII), was held at Trinity College Dublin in September 2006. This time the workshop focused on challenges presented by new instrumentation including new ground based instrumentation such as the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST), Swedish Solar Telescope (SST) and Dutch Open Telescope (DOT), as well as recent and future space instrumentation on board the STEREO, Hinode and SDO spacecraft. The workshop had ~70 participants featuring invited and contributed talks, posters and breakout/open-ended discussion sessions (working groups). As with previous workshops, we emphasized that we were looking for topics that would be of interest to both the image processing and solar physics communities. The successful working group sessions were held in three groups, discussing (1) 3D tomography and visualization of the corona and heliosphere, (2) real-time data analysis and assimilation , and (3) fundamental image processing and statistics. Some presentations from this conference and related research have been compiled for a Topical Issue of Solar Physics (vol. 248, Young & Ireland 2009).