Advances in hardware and constructions in geomagnetic observatory measurements and practice in Russia and the near abroad

Abstract

Stationary ground-based geomagnetic measurements, carried out at geomagnetic observatories, are used in a large amount of geoscience and environmental studies. With the widening of the scope of researches dealing with geomagnetic data and their analysis, the requirements for the initial data quality, their operational acquisition, analysis, processing and storage also increase. This stimulates the need for various upgrades of the existing geomagnetic observatories, as well as for the installation of the new ones. The following article summarizes the main achievements in the upgrade of the Russian segment of geomagnetic observatories, highlights the existing problems and their new solutions and provides some examples of their implementation in the installation and maintenance of geomagnetic observatories; also some recent results based on observatory data processing and analysis are mentioned.

Keywords Geophysical observatory · Geomagnetic field · Magnetometer · Magnetic survey