SOLAR STORM- NEW AI FOR FORECAST BEFORE 30 MINS
The new model analyses data from spacecraft observations of the solar wind—a relentless stream of particles from the Sun—using artificial intelligence to forecast where a solar storm would strike on Earth and give 30 minutes' notice. This may give people just enough time to be ready for the storms and avoid serious damage to vital infrastructure like electricity systems.
A group of foreign academics, including those from India, have teamed up with NASA to create a novel computer model that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and satellite data to warn of potentially disastrous space weather in the wake of rising solar storm activity.
Because the Sun is preparing for a peak in an activity that is likely to occur somewhere in 2025 and occurs roughly every 11 years, scientists have forecast an increase in solar storms.
The new model analyses data from spacecraft observations of the solar wind—a relentless stream of particles from the Sun—using artificial intelligence to forecast where a solar storm would strike on Earth and give 30 minutes' notice.
This may give people just enough time to be ready for the storms and avoid serious damage to vital infrastructure like electricity systems.
According to Vishal Upendran of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) in India, "With this AI, it is now possible to make rapid and accurate global predictions and inform decisions in the event of a solar storm, thereby minimizing — or even preventing — devastation to modern society."
Deep learning was used by the research team at the Frontier Development Lab, a public-private collaboration made up of NASA, the US Geological Survey, the US Department of Energy, and the IUCAA, to create the DAGGER computer model (formally, Deep Learning Geomagnetic Perturbation).
DAGGER, which was described in the journal Space Weather, has the ability to anticipate geomagnetic disturbances 30 minutes in advance, globally. The predictions are updated once per minute and may be made in less than a second.
The researchers suggested that with models like DAGGER, there may one day be solar storm sirens that sound a warning in power plants and satellite control centers all across the world.
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