Observatory Magnetometer In-Situ Calibration

Abstract

An experimental validation of the in-situ calibration procedure, which allows estimating parameters of observatory magnetometers (scale factors, sensor misalignment) without its operation interruption, is presented. In order to control the validity of the procedure, the records provided by two magnetometers calibrated independently in a coil system have been processed. The in-situ estimations of the parameters are in very good agreement with the values provided by the coil system calibration.

Keywords

• Flux-gate
• Magnetometer
• Calibration
• Coil
• Least-square
• Estimator