Calibration of Swarm accelerometer data by GPS positioning and linear temperature correction

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2018.04.041" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2018.04.041</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2018.04.041" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.asr.2018.04.041</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Calibration of Swarm accelerometer data by GPS positioning and linear temperature correction

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

warm, a mission of the European Space Agency, consists of three satellites orbiting the Earth since November 2013. In addition to the instrumentation aimed at fulfilling the mission's main goal, which is the observation of Earth's magnetic field, each satellite carries a geodetic quality GPS receiver and an accelerometer. Initially put in a 500-km altitude, all Swarm spacecraft slowly decay due to the action of atmospheric drag. Atmospheric particles and radiation forces impinge on the satellite's surface and thus create the main part of the nongravitational force, which together with satellite-induced thrusts can be measured by space accelerometers. Unfortunately, the Swarm accelerometer data are heavily disturbed by the varying onboard temperature. We calibrate the accelerometer data against a calibration standard derived from observed GPS positions, while making use of the models to represent the forces of gravity origin. We show that this procedure can be extended to incorporate the temperature signal. The obtained calibrated accelerations are validated in several different ways. Namely by (i) physically modelled nongravitational forces, by (ii) intercomparison of calibrated accelerometer data from two Swarm satellites flying side-by-side, and by (iii) good agreement of our calibrated signals with those released by ESA, obtained via a different approach for reducing temperature effects. Finally, the presented method is applied to the Swarm C accelerometer data set covering almost two years (July 2014-April 2016), which ESA recently released to scientific users.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Calibration of Swarm accelerometer data by GPS positioning and linear temperature correction

Popis výsledku anglicky

warm, a mission of the European Space Agency, consists of three satellites orbiting the Earth since November 2013. In addition to the instrumentation aimed at fulfilling the mission's main goal, which is the observation of Earth's magnetic field, each satellite carries a geodetic quality GPS receiver and an accelerometer. Initially put in a 500-km altitude, all Swarm spacecraft slowly decay due to the action of atmospheric drag. Atmospheric particles and radiation forces impinge on the satellite's surface and thus create the main part of the nongravitational force, which together with satellite-induced thrusts can be measured by space accelerometers. Unfortunately, the Swarm accelerometer data are heavily disturbed by the varying onboard temperature. We calibrate the accelerometer data against a calibration standard derived from observed GPS positions, while making use of the models to represent the forces of gravity origin. We show that this procedure can be extended to incorporate the temperature signal. The obtained calibrated accelerations are validated in several different ways. Namely by (i) physically modelled nongravitational forces, by (ii) intercomparison of calibrated accelerometer data from two Swarm satellites flying side-by-side, and by (iii) good agreement of our calibrated signals with those released by ESA, obtained via a different approach for reducing temperature effects. Finally, the presented method is applied to the Swarm C accelerometer data set covering almost two years (July 2014-April 2016), which ESA recently released to scientific users.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/LG15003" target="_blank" >LG15003: Kalibrace akcelerometrù kosmické mise SWARM na základì kinematické dráhy a modelù gravitaèního pole</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Advances in Space Research

ISSN

1879-1948

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

62

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

9

Strana od-do

317-325

Kód UT WoS článku

000436913000006

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85047079385