In situ vector calibration of magnetic observatories

Gonsette, Alexandre; Rasson, Jean; Humbled, François

doi:10.5194/gi-6-361-2017

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Articles | Volume 6, issue 2

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25 Sep 2017

Research article |

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In situ vector calibration of magnetic observatories

Alexandre Gonsette, Jean Rasson, and François Humbled

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Short summary

We present a novel method for calibrating magnetic observatories. We show how magnetometer baselines can highlight a possible calibration error. We also provide a method based on high-frequency automatic absolute measurements. This method determines a transformation matrix for correcting raw data suffering from scale factor and orientation errors. We finally present a practical case where covered data have been successfully compared to those coming from a reference magnetometer.


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