Research on Ground Calibration Technology for Geomagnetism Sensors

The measurements of geomagnetism sensors are often affected by self-factors, install-factors and environment factors, therefore they often exist error and cause measurement accuracy reduction. Focus on these problems, this paper analyse existing ground calibration algorithms and their merits and demerits respectively. Besides, a comprehensive geomagnetism sensor error model is presented. Based on this model, a least square method based ellipsoid fitting calibration and compensation algorithm is presented. The experiment results show that this novel calibration algorithm can effectively restrain and compensate geomagnetism signal measurement error.