Open AccessChallenges of studying Earth's magnetosphere discussed
Author(s) -
Germany G.,
Craven P.,
Hoffman R.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/99eo00084
Subject(s) - magnetosphere , spacecraft , resolution (logic) , scroll , remote sensing , range (aeronautics) , computer science , aerospace engineering , physics , geology , engineering , artificial intelligence , mechanical engineering , magnetic field , quantum mechanics
How do you view a high resolution image on a low resolution screen? Web surfers often encounter poorly designed Web pages that require the user to scroll around an on‐screen graphic much too large for their computer monitor. Last fall, about 100 scientists met to discuss a similar problem in magnetospheric physics: How do you study the Earth's magnetosphere, with its wide range of spatial and temporal scales, using the poor spatial resolution of todays limited fleet of spacecraft? The answers they came up with were threefold—use imaging to fill in the gaps, use much larger fleets of spacecraft, and use modeling to tie everything together.