Direct string magnetic gradiometer for space applications

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 529-535

  Sunderland, Andrew ^a   Veryaskin, Alexey V ^a,b   McRae, Wayne ^a,b   Ju, Li ^a   Blair, David G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Gravitec Instruments   (Australia)

Author keywords

Current carrying string; Gradiometry; Magnetic gradients; Magnetometry

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; MAGNETOMETERS; SATELLITES; SPACE APPLICATIONS;

AC CURRENTS; CURRENT CARRYING STRING; GRADIOMETER; GRADIOMETRY; MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; MAGNETIC GRADIENT TENSOR; MAGNETIC GRADIENTS; MAGNETOMETRY; OFF-DIAGONAL COMPONENTS; SATELLITE PLATFORMS; VIBRATING WIRE;

MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 49649095122     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2008.06.014     Document Type: Article

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