The DMSP F-7 satellite is an operational Air Force meteorological satellite which carried a magnetometer for geophysical measurements. The magnetometer was located within the body of the spacecraft in the presence of large spacecraft fields. In addition to stray magnetic fields, the data have inherent position and time inaccuracies. Algorithms were developed to identify and remove time varying magnetic field noise from the data. Techniques developed for Magsat were then modified and used to attempt determination of the spacecraft fields, of any rotation between the magnetometer axes and the spacecraft axes, and of any scale changes within the magnetometer itself. The corrected data were then used to attempt to model the geomagnetic field. This was done in combination with data from Magsat, from the standard magnetic observatories, from aeromagnetic and other survey data, and from DE-2 spacecraft field data. Future DMSP missions can be upgraded in terms of geomagnetic measurements by upgrading the time and position information furnished with the data, placing the magnetometer at the end of the boom, upgrading the attitude determination at the magnetometer, and increasing the accuracy of the magnetometer.
Processing of DMSP Magnetic Data and its Use in Geomagnetic Field Modeling
1989
63 pages
Report
No indication
English
Astrogeology , Meteorological Data Collection, Analysis, & Weather , Unmanned Spacecraft , Algorithms , Geomagnetism , Geophysics , Harmonic analysis , Mathematical models , Spherical harmonics , Interplanetary magnetic fields , Dmsp satellites , Magnetic anomalies , Magnetometers , Meteorological satellites
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