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NASA THEMIS GBO Gakona Station

ResourceID
spase://SMWG/Observatory/THEMIS/Ground/CANMAG/GAKO

Description

Gakona (GAKO) Station is located at Gakona, Alaska.
Magnetic Latitude: 63.05
Magnetic Longitude: 269.51
Magnetic coordinates obtained by calculation using the CGM online calculator with IGRF 2008 at altitude of 0 km. Magnetic declination obtained using CGM online calculator with IGRF 2007

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Observatory

ResourceID
spase://SMWG/Observatory/THEMIS/Ground/CANMAG/GAKO
ResourceHeader
ResourceName
NASA THEMIS GBO Gakona Station
AlternateName
GAKO
ReleaseDate
2023-06-26 11:50:38
Description

Gakona (GAKO) Station is located at Gakona, Alaska.
Magnetic Latitude: 63.05
Magnetic Longitude: 269.51
Magnetic coordinates obtained by calculation using the CGM online calculator with IGRF 2008 at altitude of 0 km. Magnetic declination obtained using CGM online calculator with IGRF 2007

Acknowledgement
We acknowledge NASA contract NAS5-02099 and V. Angelopoulos for use of data from the THEMIS Mission. Specifically: ASI/GBO: S. Mende and E. Donovan for use of the ASI data.
Contacts
RolePersonStartDateStopDateNote
1.PrincipalInvestigatorspase://SMWG/Person/Vassilis.Angelopoulos
2.CoInvestigatorspase://SMWG/Person/Stephen.B.Mende
3.CoInvestigatorspase://SMWG/Person/Eric.Donovan
InformationURL
Name
THEMIS Web Site
URL
http://themis.ssl.berkeley.edu/
Description

Contains info about THEMIS mission and associated data sets

InformationURL
Name
THEMIS Ground Based Observatory System Design
URL
http://www.igpp.ucla.edu/public/THEMIS/SCI/Pubs/2007_Refereed/harris_ssr_2007_gbo_sys_design_published.pdf
Description

Harris et al., Nov. 2007; In depth description of GBO design.

ObservatoryGroupID
spase://SMWG/Observatory/THEMIS/Ground/CANMAG
Location
ObservatoryRegion
Earth.Surface
CoordinateSystemName
WGS84
Latitude
62.39
Longitude
214.87
Elevation
0
OperatingSpan
StartDate
2006-09-12 00:00:00