cesium magnetometer
cesium magnetometer
[′sē·zē·əm ‚mag·nə′täm·əd·ər] (engineering)
A magnetometer that uses a cesium atomic-beam resonator as a frequency standard in a circuit that detects very small variations in magnetic fields.
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The system has a dipole moment in excess of 100,000, a cesium magnetometer, GPS and laser altitude control.
A portable Cesium magnetometer with steering has been produced by Geometrics in partnership with Trimble Navigation, by integrating the G-858 magnetometer with the relatively inexpensive agGPS-132 sub-metre DGPS system.
The array consisted of four optically pumped
cesium magnetometers (CS-L [Scintrex, Snidercroft Road, Concord, Ontario, Canada]), and each magnetometer was located on the orthogonal axes at 2 m from the origin, as shown in Figure 8.
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