Accurate determination of magnetic field gradients from four point vector measurements - Part I: Use of natural constraints on vector data obtained from a single spinning spacecraft

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 377-385

  Kepko, Emil L ^a   Khurana, Krishan K ^a   Kivelson, Margaret G ^a   Elphic, Richard C ^a   Russell, Christopher T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CALIBRATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOMETERS; MAGNETOSPHERE; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SENSORS; SPACECRAFT;

LOW FREQUENCY GEOPHYSICAL SIGNALS; MAGNETIC FIELD GRADIENTS; MAGNETOMETER SENSORS; MONOCHROMATIC SIGNALS; SPATIAL GRADIENTS;

MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0030104363     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.486522     Document Type: Article

References (4)

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