magneticFieldWMM

Executive Summary

Evaluate a magnetic field model about Earth for a range of spacecraft locations using the World Magnetic Model (WMM).

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The module is a sub-class of the magneticFieldBase base class. See that class for the nominal messages used and general instructions.

Class MagneticFieldWMM

class MagneticFieldWMM : public MagneticFieldBase

magnetic field WMM class

Public Functions

MagneticFieldWMM()

The constructor method initializes the dipole parameters to zero, resuling in a zero magnetic field result by default.

Returns:

void

~MagneticFieldWMM()

Clean up any memory allocations.

Returns:

void

Public Members

std::string dataPath

— String with the path to the WMM coefficient file

double epochDateFractionalYear

Specified epoch date as a fractional year.

BSKLogger bskLogger

— BSK Logging