Comment 5 for bug 259552

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Jack Ireland (jack-ireland) wrote :

I've been looking at the SPoCA labels and I think they should be changed. The key "frm_specificid" has a value, for example the big SPOCA active region in this image:

http://helioviewer.org/?date=2013-06-17T14:05:10.000Z&imageScale=1.2102204&centerX=-339.3054988751953&centerY=256.12297485780033&imageLayers=%5BSDO,HMI,HMI,magnetogram,1,100%5D,%5BSDO,HMI,HMI,continuum,1,0%5D&eventLayers=%5BAR,SPoCA;HMI_SHARP,1%5D,%5BCC,all,1%5D,%5BCD,all,1%5D,%5BCJ,all,1%5D,%5BCW,all,1%5D,%5BFI,all,1%5D,%5BFA,all,1%5D,%5BFL,all,1%5D,%5BLP,all,1%5D,%5BOS,all,1%5D,%5BPG,all,1%5D,%5BSG,all,1%5D,%5BSP,all,1%5D,%5BSS,all,1%5D&eventLabels=true

has a value "SPoCA_v1.0_AR_0000009026". This is a unique number. I think the FRM and FRM ID would be more useful to have displayed than the active region area. I suggest that the label be changed to

"SPoCA 9026"

where the SPoCA version number and leading zeros have been stripped away. SPoCA coronal holes can also be labeled in the same way. This way the user understands that the detection is from SPoCA, and that it has a catalog number of some kind.

This will also necissitate a change in how NOAA active regions are labeled. Instead of having just the active region number, I think the detection method should also include the "NOAA" FRM as well as the existing information. Therefore the labels will look something like:

NOAA 12345
ab

where "ab" is "alpha beta" in greek letters.