Abstract
We present the in-flight scalar calibration and characterisation of the Swarm magnetometry package consisting of the absolute scalar magnetometer, the vector magnetometer, and the spacecraft structure supporting the instruments. A significant improvement in the scalar residuals between the pairs of magnetometers is demonstrated, confirming the high performance of these instruments. The results presented here, including the characterisation of a Sun-driven disturbance field, form the basis of the correction of the magnetic vector measurements from Swarm which is applied to the Swarm Level 1b magnetic data.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 129 |
Journal | Earth, Planets and Space |
Volume | 68 |
Issue number | 1 |
Number of pages | 13 |
ISSN | 1343-8832 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Bibliographical note
© 2016 The Author(s). This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.Keywords
- Geomagnetism
- Magnetometer
- Instrument calibration
- Satellite
- Swarm