Processed Imagery of the Great Red Spot, Jupiter

3D fractional order sunshaded image of the great red spot, Jupiter.

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This is a fractional order sunshaded image of the great red spot on Jupiter, overlain on the original data in 3D. Colour relates to frequency content in a given direction.
See ;
Cooper, G.R.J., and Cowan, D.R., 2003. Sunshading Geophysical Data Using Fractional Order Horizontal Gradients
The Leading Edge v.22 no.3 p.204-205.

Cooper, G.R.J., and Cowan, D.R., 2003. The Application of Fractional Calculus to Potential Field Data.
Exploration Geophysics v.34 no. 4 p.51-56.

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The original grey scale image was from the NASA/JPL site.

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Gordon Cooper (2026). Processed Imagery of the Great Red Spot, Jupiter (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/4064-processed-imagery-of-the-great-red-spot-jupiter), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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