Design, Modeling, and Test of a System for Atmospheric Electric Field Measurement

Author

Fort, Ada ; Mugnaini, Marco ; Vignoli, Valerio ; Rocchi, Santina ; Perini, Federico ; Monari, Jader ; Schiaffino, Marco ; Fiocchi, Franco

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Univ. of Siena, Siena, Italy

Volume

60

Issue

8

fYear

2011

Firstpage

2778

Lastpage

2785

Abstract

In this paper, a new version of the field-mill sensor structure for atmospheric electric field measurements is presented. Both the hardware components (i.e., the mechanical structure, the electronic front end, and the acquisition and control systems) and the data processing software are designed in order to reduce power consumption and enhance the instrument metrological performance in terms of accuracy, sensitivity, and frequency band.

Keywords

atmospheric electricity; data acquisition; electric field measurement; geophysical equipment; acquisition system; atmospheric electric field measurement; control system; data processing software; electronic front end; field-mill sensor structure; mechanical structure; power consumption; Atmospheric measurements; Atmospheric modeling; Charge measurement; Extraterrestrial measurements; Instruments; Pollution measurement; Atmospheric electric field measurement; electric field monitoring; field mill;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9456

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TIM.2011.2130010

Filename

5756668