Ørsted pre-flight magnetometer calibration mission

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 674-688

  Risbo, Torben ^a   Brauer, Peter ^b   Merayo, Jose M G ^b   Nielsen, Otto V ^b   Petersen, Jan R ^b   Primdahl, Fritz ^b,c   Richter, Ingo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c Denish Space Research Institute   (Denmark)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fluxgate; Magnetometry; Spherical harmonics; Vector calibration

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETISM; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SATELLITES;

GEOMAGNETIC MAPPING;

MAGNETOMETERS;

CALIBRATION; MEASURING INSTRUMENT;

EID: 0038323053     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/14/5/319     Document Type: Article

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