Continuous Near-Real-Time Farside Images of the Sun

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Continuous Near-Real-Time Farside Images of the
Sun

• Goal - Provide predictive capability for space
  weather forecasting
• Significance - Helioseismology provides unique
  imaging of active regions on the farside of the
  Sun, weeks before solar rotation carries them
  onto the visible, nearside where they become
  geoeffective.
• What we have done so far - Developed and
  implemented processing (calibration, compression,
  remapping) at GONG sites, established
  near-real-time data transfer system, and
  completing automated creation of the farside
  images and will place them at http//gong.nso.edu/
  data/farside.
• What remains to be done - Establish routine
  operations and characterize the relationship of
  the farside signal to surface activity indicators.

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