Insitu Insight UAS

Stuart Creek Alaska

Midnight Sun, 22 June, 2007

The Geophysical Institute

Magnetometer Array

GIMA

Status, Updates, Future

Donald Hampton

Research Assistant Prof.

Geophysical Institute

&

Optical Science Manager

Poker Flat Research Range

dhampton@alaska.edu

(907)455-2256

Our Magnetometers

NAROD Three-axis fluxgate magnetometers

Temperature stability: < 0.1 nT/degree (sensor);

Long term drift: < 10 pT/day;

Noise: 7 pT/root Hz @ 1Hz;

Orthogonality error: <0.1 degree;

Digitization: 16 bits;

Normal ops – 1Hz

Station Locations

Mag Only

Mag

+

Optics

CIGO

System Diagram

Operations and archiving funded by GI overhead

Down – three chan. pegged

OK – 7 year old comp.

No net. – 10+ year old comp.

One channel down

OK – 10+ year old comp.

OK – brand new NUC

OK – 6 year old comp.

One channel down.

OK – 10+ year old comp.

September 2011

What is different about these

two plots?

Intel NUC

CentOS

Python scripts

NASA HIDEE Funding

Student programmer

Data Portal – File access

TDAS?

FYU, GAK

SuperMAG ready

Three formats

Raw ASCII, NCDF, CSV

magnet[ometer].gi.alaska.edu

Current State

Summer, 2016

Available hardware

would allow addition

of blue stations

Stage 1

Stage 2?