Opened 10 years ago

Closed 9 years ago

#54 closed enhancement (fixed)

Automatic Declination adjustment

Reported by: Wookey Owned by: Olly Betts
Priority: minor Milestone: 1.2.21
Component: cavern Version:
Keywords: declination magnetic Cc:

Description

If surveys are dated and geolocated than a magnetic instrument correction can be automatically calculated.

As Survex has recently gained geolocation capabilities this is now a practical option. Therion has done this for a long time using the IGRF model coefficients and its own C++ code. Here is a C-library that may well do the trick: http://geomag.org/models/dmsp.html

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by Olly Betts

Milestone: 1.2.21
Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed
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