Magnetometer System (Magnetics)

Attention:

Please note that the Magnetometer System can only be operated upon request. Request operations with the Magnetometer System to AWI-Logistics in sufficient time prior to the cruise.

Summary

Contacts

Components

The system consits of two fluxgate magnetometers mounted at the crows nest.

Subdevices

Position

Data logging, storage and archiving

Logged parameters

Central geographical ship's position and time standard

Time stamp via NMEA telegram.
Geographical ship's position via NMEA telegram.

Rawdata storage on board

Data storage in DShip system.

Dship

Uncorrected measurement data.

Device name	magnetics
Parameters	electronics temperature port [°C]; electronics temperature starbord [°C]; FP [nT]; FS [nT]; gyro heading [deg]; gyro pitch [deg]; gyro roll [deg]; sensor temperature port [°C]; sensor temperature starbord [°C]; XP-component [nT]; XS-component [nT]; YP-component [nT]; YS-component [nT]; ZP-component [nT]; ZS-component [nT]

Data archiving on land

After the cruise the DShip data set can be extracted from https://dms.awi.de.

File format(s)	stored DShip system
Calibration certificates	NO

Documentation

König, M. (2006): Processing of shipborne magnetometer data and revision of the timing and geometry of the Mesozoic break-up of Gondwana = Auswertung schiffsfester Magnetometerdaten und die Neubestimmung des Zeitpunktes und der Geometrie des Mesozoischen Aufbruchs von Gondwana , Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung (Reports on Polar and Marine Research), Bremerhaven, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, 525 , 137 p. .

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