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VFM

About VFM

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The Vector Field Magnetometer (VFM) is Swarm's core instrument. It makes high-precision measurements of the magnitude and direction of the magnetic field, i.e. the field's vector.

The VFM uses the proven fluxgate magnetometer design. VFM features a wide-range, high performance ring core fluxgate magnetometer. The fluxgate sensor uses the nonlinearity of magnetisation properties for the high permeability of easily saturated ferromagnetic alloys to serve as an indicator for the local field strength.

Data Tools

VirES
VirES for Swarm, the virtual research service, is a highly interactive data manipulation and retrieval interface for Swarm constellation mission products. It includes tools for studying various geomagnetic models by comparing them to the Swarm satellite measurements at given space weather and ionospheric conditions.
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VRE
The Swarm Virtual Research Environment (VRE) is a cloud service which provides a web-based interactive development environment based on JupyterLab.



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Aurora
Swarm-Aurora is a web-based platform that facilitates the identification of opportunities for auroral research utilising Swarm data.



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AMPS
The Average Magnetic field and Polar current System model (AMPS) is a climatological model of polar ionospheric currents, based on magnetic field measurements from the CHAMP and Swarm satellites.


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VFM Quality Control Reports

Swarm Quality Control Reports are produced on a weekly basis and and cover the quality and the data acquired by the three Swarm satellites and the products produced from this data.

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