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Polar Electric Fields Instrument (EFI), Spacecraft Position in GEI Coordinates

ResourceID
spase://NASA/NumericalData/POLAR/EFI/SC/GEI/Position/PT60S

Description

The Polar spacecraft position, in GEI coordinates.

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ResourceID
spase://NASA/NumericalData/POLAR/EFI/SC/GEI/Position/PT60S
ResourceHeader
ResourceName
Polar Electric Fields Instrument (EFI), Spacecraft Position in GEI Coordinates
ReleaseDate
2020-07-07 21:15:01Z
Description

The Polar spacecraft position, in GEI coordinates.

Acknowledgement
The user will acknowledge, in any publication which uses POLAR EFI data, the instrument PI.
Contacts
RolePersonStartDateStopDateNote
1.PrincipalInvestigatorspase://SMWG/Person/Forrest.S.Mozer
2.MetadataContactspase://SMWG/Person/Jack.B.Vernetti
PriorIDs
spase://VWO/NumericalData/POLAR/EFI/S_C_GEI_Position
spase://VSPO/NumericalData/POLAR/EFI/SC/GEI/Position/PT60S
AccessInformation
RepositoryID
Availability
Online
AccessRights
Open
AccessURL
URL
Description

This URL is the root location of the POLAR EFI archive. It consists of Yearly subdirectories: 1996, 1997, ..., 2008 each of which consists of Monthly subdirectories: 01, 02, ..., 12 The archive files for a given date are located in the corresponding YY/MM subdirectory.

Language
en
Format
CDF
Encoding
None
Acknowledgement
The user will acknowledge, in any publication which uses POLAR EFI data, the instrument PI.
InstrumentIDs
MeasurementType
Ephemeris
TemporalDescription
TimeSpan
StartDate
1996-03-16 00:00:00
StopDate
2008-04-13 24:00:00
Cadence
PT60S
Parameter #1
Name
Time
ParameterKey
TIME_TAG
Description

Data point time-tags which are double precision floating point numbers which represent the number of seconds, UTC, from midnight of the day represented by the file.

Cadence
PT60S
Units
seconds
ValidMin
0.0
ValidMax
86460.0
Support
SupportQuantity
Temporal
Parameter #2
Name
SCPositionGEIVector
ParameterKey
DATA_VALUES
Description

Data point vector values which are a triplet of single precision floating point numbers which represent the X,Y,Z components of the GEI spacecraft position, in Re.

Cadence
PT60S
Units
Re
UnitsConversion
6.3712e+6>m
CoordinateSystem
CoordinateRepresentation
Cartesian
CoordinateSystemName
GEI
ValidMin
-20.0
ValidMax
20.0
Support
SupportQuantity
Positional