We are now serving hourly images from Kiruna's sister site at Sodankyla, Finland for you to classify. The all-aky camera images are exactly the same format as in Kiruna, but the horizon will look a little different! Thank you, we are so grateful for your help with this project!
Kiruna and Sodankyla All-sky Camera image classification.
Zooniverse 討論區
與研究團隊和其他志願者交談！
Clear Skies - Kiruna 統計資料
檢視更多統計資料All Time Stats
Active Stats
每次點按皆計數！加入 Clear Skies - Kiruna 的社群，完成此專案，協助研究人員產出重要成果。點按「檢視更多統計資料」來查看更多統計資料。
來自研究人員的訊息
Clear skies are vital for successful measurement of winds on the edge of space. By classifying these images you will be helping us advance our scientific understanding - and you will get to see the aurora!
Chris Scott關於 Clear Skies - Kiruna
Where space meets the sky
Join researchers from the DRIIVE project (Drivers and Impacts of Ionospheric Variability with EISCAT 3D) to help understand how winds in the Earth's upper atmosphere above the high Arctic are affected by space.
In addition to EISCAT (the European Incoherent Scatter Radar), the Arctic is bristling with other radars and cameras, all looking for clues as to how the solar wind influences our upper atmosphere. In order to do this, weather conditions near the ground have to be just right for the cameras to measure the atmosphere at altitudes above 100 km.
How you can help
In order to peer into the edge of space, the skies have to be clear. To help us know when this occurs, all-sky cameras near Kiruna, Sweden, and Sodankyla, Finland, are continually photographing the sky, but looking through many thousands of these images is very time consuming. Can you help? Your classifications will allow us to interpret measurements of upper atmospheric winds and temperatures on the edge of space and you may get to see an aurora!
By using your classifications to determine when observing conditions are perfect, we will know when we can combine observations from all the instrumentation. This will help us understand in detail how the Earth's atmosphere responds to the solar wind, and how that affects our modern technologies such as satellites, radio communication and power grids. We will keep you up to date with our findings through the Talk pages, where we will discuss our research, share latest results and enable you to ask questions and let us know if you see anything curious or unexpected!
Why not AI?
Why are we not using artificial intelligence (AI) to do this? Well, that would certainly be useful but to do this we need to train any AI by providing a set of images that have been classified by the most sophisticated computer we know of - you!
