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Since deployed on the Martian surface, the seismometer SEIS (Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure) and the APSS (Auxiliary Payload Sensors Suite) of the InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) mission have been recorded the daily Martian respectively ground acceleration and pressure. These data are essential to investigate the geophysical and atmospheric features of the red planet. So far, the InSight team were able to detect multiple Martian events. We distinguish two types: the artificial events like the lander modes or the micro-tilts known as glitches or the natural events like the pressure drops which are important to estimate the Martian subsurface and the seismic events used to study the interior structure of Mars. Despite the data complexity, the InSight team was able to catalog these events (Clinton et al 2020 for the seismic event catalog, Banfield et al., 2018, 2020 for the pressure drops catalog and Scholz et al. (2020) for the glitches catalog). However, despite all this effort, we are still in front of multiple challenges. In fact,  the seismic events' detection is limited  due to the SEIS sensitivity, which is the origin of a high noise level that may contaminate the seismic events. Thus, we can miss some of them, especially in the noisy period. Besides, their detection is very challenging and require multiple preprocessing task which is time-consuming. For the pressure drops, the detection method used in Banfield et al.  2020 is limited by a threshold equal to 0.3 Pa. Thus, the rest of pressure drops are not included. Plus, due to lack of energy, the pressure sensor was off for several days. As a result, many pressure drops were missed. As a result, being able to detect them directly on the SEIS data which are, in contrast,  provided continuously, is very important.

In this regard, the aim of this study is to overcome these challenges and thus improve the Martian events detection and provide an updated catalog automatically. For that, we were inspired of one of the main technics used today in data processing and analysis in a complete automatic way: it is the Machine Learning and particularly in our case is the Deep Learning. The architecture used for that is the “Hybrid Recurrent Scattering Neural Network” (Bueno et al 2021)  adapted for Mars

How to cite: Barkaoui, S., Bueno Rodriguez, A., Lognonné, P., De Hoop, M., Sainton, G., Plasman, M., and kawamura, T.: Mars events polyphonic detection, segmentation and classification with a hybrid recurrent scattering neural network using InSight mission data, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, EGU22-8940, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-8940, 2022.

Spectroscopy provides important information on the surface composition of Mars. Spectral data can support studies such as the evaluation of potential (manned) landing sites as well as supporting determination of past surface processes. The CRISM instrument on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is a high spectral resolution visible infrared mapping spectrometer currently in orbit around Mars. It records 2D spatially resolved spectra over a wavelength range of 362 nm to 3920 nm. At present data collected covers less than 2% of the planet. Lifetime issues with the cryo-coolers prevents limits further data acquisition in the infrared band. In order to extend areal coverage for spectroscopic analysis in regions of major importance to the history of liquid water on Mars (e.g. Valles Marineris, Noachis Terra), we investigate whether data from other instruments can be fused to extrapolate spectral features in CRISMto these non-spectral imaged areas. The present work will use data from the CaSSIS instrument which is a high spatial resolution colour and stereo imager onboard the European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO). CaSSIS returns images at 4.5 m/px from the nominal 400 km altitude orbit in four colours. Its filters were selected to provide mineral diagnostics in the visible wavelength range (400 – 1100 nm). It has so far imaged around 2% of the planet with an estimated overlap of ≲0.01% of CRISM data. This study introduces a two-step pixel based reconstruction approach using CaSSIS four band images. In the first step advanced unsupervised techniques are applied on CRISM hyperspectral datacubes to reduce dimensionality and establish clusters of spectral features. Given that these clusters contain reasonable information about the surface composition, in a second step, it is feasible to map CaSSIS four band images to the spectral clusters by training a machine learning classifier (for the cluster labels) using only CaSSIS datasets. In this way the system can extrapolate spectral features to areas unmapped by CRISM. To assess the performance of this proposed methodology we analyzed actual and artificially generated CaSSIS images and benchmarked results against traditional correlation based methods. Qualitative and quantitative analyses indicate that by this novel procedure spectral features of in non-spectral imaged areas can be predicted to an extent that can be evaluated quantitatively, especially in highly feature-rich landscapes.

How to cite: Fernandes, M., Thomas, N., Elser, B., Rossi, A. P., Pletl, A., and Cremonese, G.: Extrapolation of CRISM based spectral feature maps using CaSSIS four-band images with machine learning techniques, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, EGU22-2765, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-2765, 2022.

We propose a new method for automatic detection of solar magnetic tornadoes based on computer vision methods. Magnetic tornadoes are magneto-plasma structures with a swirling magnetic field in the solar corona, and there is also evidence for the rotation of plasma in them. A theoretical description and numerical modeling of these objects are very difficult due to the three-dimensionality of the structures and peculiarities of their spatial and temporal dynamics [Wedemeyer-Böhm et al, 2012, Nature]. Typical sizes of magnetic tornadoes vary from 10² km up to 10⁶ km, and their lifetime is from several minutes to many hours. So far, quite a few works are devoted to their study, and there are no accepted algorithms for detecting solar magnetic tornadoes by machine methods. An insufficient number of identified structures is one of many problems that do not allow studying physics of magnetic tornadoes and the processes associated with them. In particular, the filamentous rotating structures are well delectable only at the limb, while one can only make suppositions about their presence at the solar disk.
Our method is based on analyzing SDO/AIA images at wavelengths 171 Å, 193 Å, 211 Å and 304 Å, to which several different algorithms are applied, namely, the convolution with filters, convolutional neural network, and gradient boosting. The new technique is a combination of several approaches (transfer learning & stacking) that are widely used in various fields of data analysis. Such an approach allows detecting the structures in a short time with sufficient accuracy. As test objects, we used magnetic tornadoes previously described in the literature [e.g., Wedemeyer et al 2013, ApJ; Mghebrishvili et al. 2015 ApJ]. Our method made it possible to detect those structures, as well as to reveal previously unknown magnetic tornadoes.

How to cite: Vorobev, D., Blumenau, M., Fridman, M., Khabarova, O., and Obridko, V.: Automatic detection of solar magnetic tornadoes based on computer vision methods., EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, EGU22-11501, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-11501, 2022.

The magnetopause (MP) and the bow shock (BS) are the two boundaries bounding the magnetosheath, the region between the magnetosphere and the solar wind. Their position and shape depend on the upstream solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field conditions.

Predicting their shape and position is the starting point of many subsequent studies of processes controlling the coupling between the Earth’s magnetosphere and its interplanetary environment. We now have at our disposal an important amount of data from a multitude of spacecraft missions allowing for good spatial coverage, as well as algorithms based on statistical learning to automatically detect the two boundaries. From the data of 9 satellites over 20 years, we identified around 19000 crossings of the BS and 36000 crossings of the MP. They were used, together with their associated upstream conditions, to train a regression model to predict the shape and position of the boundaries. 

Preliminary results indicate that the obtained models outperform analytical models without making simplifying assumptions on the geometry and the dependency over control parameters.

How to cite: Ghisalberti, A., Aunai, N., and Michotte de Welle, B.: Magnetopause and bow shock models with machine learning, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, EGU22-5721, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-5721, 2022.

Machine learning (ML) techniques have been successfully introduced in the fields of Space Physics and Space Weather, yielding highly promising results in modeling and predicting many disparate aspects of the geospace. Magnetospheric ultra-low frequency (ULF) waves play a key role in the dynamics of the near-Earth electromagnetic environment and, therefore, their importance in Space Weather studies is indisputable. Magnetic field measurements from recent multi-satellite missions are currently advancing our knowledge on the physics of ULF waves. In particular, Swarm satellites have contributed to the expansion of data availability in the topside ionosphere, stimulating much recent progress in this area. Coupled with the new successful developments in artificial intelligence, we are now able to use more robust approaches for automated ULF wave identification and classification. Here, we present results employing various neural networks (NNs) methods (e.g. Fuzzy Artificial Neural Networks, Convolutional Neural Networks) in order to detect ULF waves in the time series of low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. The outputs of the methods are compared against other ML classifiers (e.g. k-Nearest Neighbors (kNN), Support Vector Machines (SVM)), showing a clear dominance of the NNs in successfully classifying wave events.

How to cite: Balasis, G., Antonopoulou, A., Papadimitriou, C., Boutsi, A. Z., Giannakis, O., and Daglis, I. A.: Machine Learning Techniques for Automated ULF Wave Recognition in Swarm Time Series, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, EGU22-9621, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-9621, 2022.

Generating reliable databases of electron density measurements over a wide range of geomagnetic conditions is essential for improving empirical models of electron density. The Neural-network-based Upper hybrid Resonance Determination (NURD) algorithm has been developed for automated extraction of electron density from Van Allen Probes electric field measurements, and has been shown to be in good agreement with existing semi-automated methods and empirical models. The extracted electron density data has since then been used to develop the PINE (Plasma density in the Inner magnetosphere Neural network-based Empirical) model, an empirical model for reconstructing the global dynamics of the cold plasma density distribution based only on solar wind data and geomagnetic indices.
In this study we re-implement the NURD algorithm in both Python and Matlab, and compare the performance of these implementations to each other and previous NURD results. We take advantage of a labeled training data set now being available for the full duration of the Van Allen Probes mission to train the network and generate an electron density data set for a significantly longer time period. We perform detailed comparisons between this output, electron density produced from Van Allen Probes electric field measurements using the AURA semi-automated algorithm, and electron density obtained from existing empirical models. We also present preliminary results from the PINE plasmasphere model trained on this extended NURD electron density data set.

How to cite: Szabo-Roberts, M., Kume, K., Smirnov, A., Zhelavskaya, I., and Shprits, Y.: Re-implementing and Extending the NURD Algorithm to the Full Duration of the Van Allen Probes Mission, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, EGU22-12830, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-12830, 2022.

The large amount of data produced by measurements and simulations of space plasmas has made it fertile ground for the application of classification methods, that can support the scientist in preliminary data analysis. Among the different classification methods available, Self Organizing Maps, SOMs [Kohonen, 1982] offer the distinct advantage of producing an ordered, lower-dimensional representation of the input data that preserves their topographical relations. The 2D map obtained after training can then be explored to gather knowledge on the data it represents. The distance between nodes reflects the distance between the input data: one can then further cluster the map nodes to identify large scale regions in the data where plasma properties are expected to be similar.

In this work, we train SOMs using data from different simulations of different aspects of the heliospheric environment: a global magnetospheric simulation done with the OpenGGCM-CTIM-RCM code, a Particle In Cell simulation of plasmoid instability done with the semi-implicit code ECSIM, a fully kinetic simulation of single X point reconnection done with the Vlasov code implemented in MuPhy2.

We examine the SOM feature maps, unified distance matrix and SOM node weights to unlock information on the input data. We then classify the nodes of the different SOMs into a lower and automatically selected number of clusters, and we obtain, in all three cases, clusters that map well to our a priori knowledge on the three systems. Results for the magnetospheric simulations are described in Innocenti et al, 2021. 

This classification strategy then emerges as a useful, relatively cheap and versatile technique for the analysis of simulation, and possibly observational, plasma physics data.

Innocenti, M. E., Amaya, J., Raeder, J., Dupuis, R., Ferdousi, B., & Lapenta, G. (2021). Unsupervised classification of simulated magnetospheric regions. Annales Geophysicae Discussions, 1-28. 

https://angeo.copernicus.org/articles/39/861/2021/angeo-39-861-2021.pdf

How to cite: Innocenti, M. E., Köhne, S., Hornisch, S., Grauer, R., Amaya, J., Raeder, J., Ferdousi, B., Edmond, J. "., and Lapenta, G.: A versatile exploration method for simulated data based on Self Organizing Maps, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, EGU22-12480, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-12480, 2022.