Recalibration of the CHAMP satellite magnetic field measurements

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Yin, Fan ^a,b   Lühr, Hermann ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

calibration; Magnetic field measurements; magnetometer; satellite

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; CALIBRATION; DATA HANDLING; ERRORS; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETISM; MAGNETOMETERS; SATELLITES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

DERIVED PARAMETERS; LOGARITHMIC FUNCTIONS; LONG TERM BEHAVIOURS; MISALIGNMENT ANGLES; STANDARD DEVIATION; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TIME-VARYING DISTURBANCE; VECTOR MAGNETOMETER;

ORBITS;

EID: 79954601677     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 13616501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/22/5/055101     Document Type: Article

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