Availability of geomagnetic information

Authors

  • Mario Brkic Faculty of Geodesy of University of Zagreb

Keywords:

geomagnetic models, geomagnetic information, data dissemination, data safety

Abstract

The issue of public availability of the Earth’s magnetic field data is not adequately regulated. The paper presents a proposal to declare geomagnetic information publicly available only when its reliability drops to the reliability of the currently best publicly available global geomagnetic model. With such a criterion, the monitoring and prediction of the unreliability of the current geomagnetic information model GI2022 suggests a reliability period of the original geomagnetic information of at least three years from the epoch of reduction of the last geomagnetic network measurements.
The same should be the period of geomagnetic information public unavailability in Croatia. During this period it is necessary to pay adequate attention to the data safety.

Author Biography

Mario Brkic, Faculty of Geodesy of University of Zagreb

Full Professor MARIO BRKIĆ, PhD (mario.brkic@geof.unizg.hr) is Head of Chair for Mathematics and Physics at the Faculty of Geodesy of University of Zagreb, Kačićeva 26, HR 10000 Zagreb, Croatia. As a full professor he holds physics and geomagnetism classes. He has been leading geomagnetic information renewal projects for the Croatian MoD and State Geodetic Administration as well as Ministry of Science since 2002.

Published

2023-07-11

Issue

Section

Scientific review paper