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Acknowledgements for the Earth's Crustal Magnetic Field

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Marine and aeromagnetic data in NGDC-720

Developing a good model of Earth's crustal magnetic field requires significant amounts of surface or near-surface data. The National Geophsycial Data Center and co-located World Data Center for Solid Earth Geophysics could not have developed the NGDC-720 model without the support and participation of the following:

For more information on the NOAA - CIRES collaborations in geomagnetism, visit the CIRES Geomagnetic Projects Web site.

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  • The CHAMP satellite is operated by GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ) Potsdam. The operations are supported by the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and the data pre-processing is supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
  • NGDC: Project Magnet, Grid of Former Soviet Union (FSU), Marine trackline data
  • Aeromagnetic compilations of South America, Africa, China and Mongolia were provided by GETECH
  • The digital magnetic anomaly database and map for the North American continent is the result of a joint effort by the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and Consejo de Recursos Minerales of Mexico (CRM). Further information is available from the USGS.
  • The digital Magnetic Map of Australia (4th Edition) was compiled by Geoscience Australia. Contact Peter Milligan or visit the Geoscience Australia Web.
  • Regional ground magnetic map of India was digitized by D. Ravat and co-workers from the publication by Qureshy, M.N., 1982, Geophysical and landsat lineament mapping - An approach illustrated from west-central and south India, Photogrammetria, v. 37, p. 161-184.
  • The Antarctic Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map is compiled by the ADMAP Expert Group
  • Anomaly Map for Northern, Western and Eastern Europe (EUROMAG) was compiled by Bundesanstalt fuer Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, Institut fuer Geowissenschaftlische Gemeinschaftsaufgaben, and National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine. Published: Wonik, T., Trippler, K., Geipel, H., Greinwald, S., Pashkevitch, I., 2001. Magnetic Anomaly Map for Northern, Western and Eastern Europe. Terra Nova 13, 203-213, 2001. Further information: Wonik@gga-hannover.de
  • Arctic and North Atlantic oceans and adjacent land areas compiled by the Geological Survey of Canada. Reference: J. R. Verhoef , R. Macnab, W. Roest, J. Arkani-Hamed, Geological Survey of Canada, Magnetic anomalies of the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans and adjacent land areas (1996), Open file 3125a
  • East Asia anomaly map compiled by the Geological Survey of Japan. Reference: T. Ishihara, K. Kisimoto, Magnetic anomaly map of East Asia 1:4,000,000., (1996) Geological Survey of Japan.
  • Aeromagnetic compilation of the Middle East. Reference: C. Reeves, ITC, AAIME ( Aeromagnetics of Arabia, India and the Middle East) (2003) CD ROM version. Contact: Reeves Earthworks

The work on the crustal magnetic field model is supported through the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), sponsors of the The World Magnetic Model