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CHAMP mission status
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The German small satellite CHAMP is on the final track for launch on July 15, 2000 into a circular, near-polar and 460 km altitude orbit as discussed by the authors, with synergetic use for precise orbit determination, global gravity and magnetic field recovery, and GPS atmosphere and ionosphere profiling.About:
This article is published in Advances in Space Research.The article was published on 2002-07-01. It has received 695 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Satellite & Ground segment.read more
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International Geomagnetic Reference Field: the 12th generation
Erwan Thébault,Christopher C. Finlay,Ciaran Beggan,Patrick Alken,Patrick Alken,Julien Aubert,Olivier Barrois,François Bertrand,T. Bondar,A. Boness,Laura Brocco,Elisabeth Canet,Aude Chambodut,Arnaud Chulliat,Arnaud Chulliat,Pierdavide Coïsson,François Civet,Aimin Du,Alexandre Fournier,Isabelle Fratter,Nicolas Gillet,Brian Hamilton,Mohamed Hamoudi,Mohamed Hamoudi,Gauthier Hulot,Thomas Jager,Monika Korte,Weijia Kuang,Xavier Lalanne,Benoit Langlais,Jean-Michel Leger,Vincent Lesur,F. J. Lowes,Susan Macmillan,Mioara Mandea,Chandrasekharan Manoj,Chandrasekharan Manoj,Stefan Maus,Nils Olsen,Valeriy G. Petrov,Victoria Ridley,Martin Rother,Terence J. Sabaka,Diana Saturnino,Reyko Schachtschneider,Olivier Sirol,Andrew Tangborn,Alan Thomson,Lars Tøffner-Clausen,Pierre Vigneron,Ingo Wardinski,Tatiana I. Zvereva +51 more
TL;DR: The 12th generation of the International Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF) was adopted in December 2014 by the Working Group V-MOD appointed by the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) as discussed by the authors.
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International Geomagnetic Reference Field: the eleventh generation
Christopher C. Finlay,Stefan Maus,Ciaran Beggan,T. Bondar,Aude Chambodut,T. Chernova,Arnaud Chulliat,V. Golovkov,Brian Hamilton,Mohamed Hamoudi,Richard Holme,Gauthier Hulot,Weijia Kuang,Benoit Langlais,Vincent Lesur,F. J. Lowes,H. Lühr,Susan Macmillan,Mioara Mandea,S. Mclean,C. Manoj,Michel Menvielle,Ingo Michaelis,Nils Olsen,Jan Rauberg,Martin Rother,Terence J. Sabaka,Andrew Tangborn,Lars Tøffner-Clausen,Erwan Thébault,Alan Thomson,Ingo Wardinski,Zigang Wei,Tatiana I. Zvereva +33 more
Abstract: The eleventh generation of the International Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF) was adopted in December 2009 by the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy Working Group V-MOD. It updates the previous IGRF generation with a definitive main field model for epoch 2005.0, a main field model for epoch 2010.0, and a linear predictive secular variation model for 2010.0–2015.0. In this note the equations defining the IGRF model are provided along with the spherical harmonic coefficients for the eleventh generation. Maps of the magnetic declination, inclination and total intensity for epoch 2010.0 and their predicted rates of change for 2010.0–2015.0 are presented. The recent evolution of the South Atlantic Anomaly and magnetic pole positions are also examined.
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The historical development of the magnetic method in exploration
Misac N. Nabighian,V.J.S. Grauch,R. O. Hansen,Thomas R. LaFehr,Yaoguo Li,J. W. Peirce,Jeffrey D. Phillips,M. E. Ruder +7 more
TL;DR: The magnetic method is the primary exploration tool in the search for minerals, oil and gas, geothermal resources, and groundwater, and for a variety of other purposes such as natural hazards assessment, mapping impact structures, and engineering and environmental studies as discussed by the authors.
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Swarm: A constellation to study the Earth’s magnetic field
TL;DR: The Swarm mission as mentioned in this paper was selected as the 5th mission in ESA's Earth Explorer Programme in 2004 and is scheduled for launch in 2010, with two spacecraft flying sideby-side at lower altitude (450 km initial altitude), and the third one flying at higher altitude (530 km).
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The CHAMP geopotential mission
TL;DR: The German small satellite mission CHAMP as mentioned in this paper was the first mission aiming at the simultaneous precise observation of both the gravity and magnetic field from a low altitude orbit, which was successfully launched on 15 July 2000.