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Processed line aeromagnetic data over Charcot Island, western Antarctic Peninsula (1996/97 season)

During the 1996-1997 Antarctic field season, an aeromagnetic survey was carried out by the BAS to the west of Alexander Island, designed to investigate the Charcot Island anomaly.

The presented data was collected using wingtip mounted Caesium-vapour magnetometers. Magnetic effects due to aircraft motion were actively compensated using a triad of fluxgate magnetometers mounted in the tail of the aircraft.

Data are provided as XYZ ASCII line data.

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Alternate title
Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01343
Date (Publication)
2020-08-06
Identifier
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01343
Custodian
  British Antarctic Survey
High Cross, Madingley Road , Cambridge , CB3 0ET , UK
+44 (0)1223 221400
Originator
  Polar Data Centre,Natural Environment Research Council,UK Research & Innovation - Johnson, Ash;Ferris, Julie
High Cross, Madingley , Cambridge , CB3 0ET , UK
+44 (0)1223 221400
Maintenance and update frequency
unknown Unknown
Keywords
  • NDGO0001
NERC OAI Harvesting
  • NERC_DDC
GCMD Parameter Valids
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Solid Earth > Geomagnetism > Magnetic Anomalies
BAS Free-text keywords
  • Aerogeophysics
  • Aeromagnetics
  • Antarctica
Use limitation

This data is covered by a UK Open Government Licence (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/) Further by downloading this data the user acknowledges that they agree with the NERC data policy (http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy.asp), and the following conditions:

1. To cite the data in any publication as follows:

Johnson, A., & Ferris, J. (2020). Processed line aeromagnetic data over Charcot Island, western Antarctic Peninsula (1996/97 season) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/538212F3-5A76-4A89-8488-E061DBB53A03

2. The user recognizes the limitations of data. Use of the data is at the users'' own risk, and there is no warranty as to the quality or accuracy of any data, or the fitness of the data for your intended use. The data are not necessarily fully quality assured and cannot be expected to be free from measurement uncertainty, systematic biases, or errors of interpretation or analysis, and may include inaccuracies in error margins quoted with the data.

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This data is covered by a UK Open Government Licence (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/) Further by downloading this data the user acknowledges that they agree with the NERC data policy (http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy.asp), and the following conditions:

1. To cite the data in any publication as follows:

Johnson, A., & Ferris, J. (2020). Processed line aeromagnetic data over Charcot Island, western Antarctic Peninsula (1996/97 season) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/538212F3-5A76-4A89-8488-E061DBB53A03

2. The user recognizes the limitations of data. Use of the data is at the users'' own risk, and there is no warranty as to the quality or accuracy of any data, or the fitness of the data for your intended use. The data are not necessarily fully quality assured and cannot be expected to be free from measurement uncertainty, systematic biases, or errors of interpretation or analysis, and may include inaccuracies in error margins quoted with the data.

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EnglishEnglish
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Begin date
1996-12-13
End date
1996-12-27
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Distribution format
Distributor
  Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
OnLine resource
https://ramadda.data.bas.ac.uk/repository/entry/show?entryid=538212f3-5a76-4a89-8488-e061dbb53a03
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dataset Dataset

Domain consistency

Measure identification
INSPIRE / Conformity_001

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Date
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Pass
No
Statement

Two wingtip-mounted Caesium-vapour magnetometers with a measurement accuracy of 0.01 nT were used.

The magnetic effect of the aircraft were actively compensated using data from a triaxial fluxgate magnetometer mounted in the tail of the aircraft. Pseudorange GPS data were used for navigation but dual-frequency continuous kinematic data were recorded which, when post-processed, gave positional accuracies of better than 5 m. Lines were flown at 10 or 20 km intervals. The flight height was generally 1000 m above mean sea level, though occasional departures from this height were necessary to clear topography, and to avoid icing conditions.

Processing of the data was carried out using the OASIS montaj Data Processing and Analysis system (Geosoft, 1997) which included data checking, merging navigation, continuation to a common elevation and removal of the 1995 IGRF (Barton, 1997)

No values are given for MagC, TCorr, BCorr, MagBRTC, ACorr and SCorr. These channels are included for compatibility with ADMAP2 convention.

File identifier
GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_01343 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2020-08-06
Metadata standard name
NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
Dataset URI
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01343
 
 

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