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.
Geographical ship's position via NMEA telegram.
Rawdata storage on board
Data storage in DShip system.
Dship
Uncorrected measurement data.
Device name |
magnetics |
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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) |
*.txt |
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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. .