SUTO-Solar Through-Turbulence Open Image Dataset

Abstract

Imaging through turbulence has been the subject of many research papers in a variety of fields, including defence, astronomy, earth observations, and medicine. The main goal of such research is usually to recover the original, undisturbed image, in which the impact of spatially dependent blurring induced by the phase modulation of the light wavefront is removed. The number of turbulence-disturbed image databases available online is small, and the datasets usually contain repeating types of ground objects (cars, buildings, ships, chessboard patterns). In this article, we present a database of solar images in widely varying turbulence conditions obtained from the SUTO-Solar patrol station recorded over a period of more than a year. The dataset contains image sequences of distinctive yet randomly selected fragments of the solar chromosphere and photosphere. Reference images have been provided with the data using computationally intensive image recovery with the latest multiframe blind deconvolution technique, which is widely accepted in solar imaging. The presented dataset will be extended in the next few years as new image sequences are routinely acquired each sunny day at the SUTO-Solar station.