Overview:
- Graphical User Interface controls the instrument
– Hosted on W7 PC
– Gives detailed operating condition of the running
- AUTODIF
– Displays and logs real-time raw sensor and motor data
– Accessible from any connected PC
- Data delivery
– As Magnetic Declination and Dip measurements every x minutes
– As baseline of companion variometer (Lama)
– As raw data with all real-time parameters
Availability of the AUTODIF instrument
- 2 instruments deployed in Belgian observatories
- 1 instrument to be deployed in Austrian Observatory CONRAD december 2012
- 2 instruments available in early 2013
- Next batch of 5 instruments built in 2013
- Lama variometer (for higher time resolution)
– Measures, logs and sends data on the magnetic declination and dip angles.
– 0.0005° resolution
– Up to 12 samples/minute
– Overall accuracy up to 0.1%
– Also 0.1nT field strength data
- Lama deployment
– Needs nonmagnetic environment, pillar and shelter
– Needs data logger hut
– Needs companion DIflux for baseline determination (once per week)
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In-Situ Geomagnetic Absolute Orientation
J. Rasson et. al. - Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium