
CASSIOPE SPACECRAFT (Swarm-E)
PROCESSED DATA HANDBOOK
e-POP Data Change Log
This table details a summary of the latest changes made to e-POP data files.
Instrument | Product | Version | Date | Changes |
Spacecraft | CAS Ephemeris txt | 1.2 | 2022-06-10 | Minor bug fix in calculation of geodetic latitude and altitude. Fixes errors on the order of 0.001 degrees latitude and 0.01 km altitude. |
CER | TEC zip | n/a | 2013-09-13 | Initial version |
FAI | lv1 h5 | v5.0 | 2021-10-08 | – New format (hdf5) – Image data is now in units of Rayleighs – Files now include latitude and longitude of projection of image onto the Earth at 110 km (NIR) or 220 km (VIS) altitude – Updated ephemeris and attitude data – Now one file per pass rather than one file per image |
GAP | lv1 binary | v2.0 | 2018-06-22 | – Filenames now have a major and minor version number – Data files are now split after two minutes of break rather than twenty – Fixed bug that caused minor loss of data at the end of some files |
GAP | lv1 binary | v3.1 | 2020-08-25 | Filename now supports the major.minor.reprocessCount versioning standard |
GAP | LOS_TEC netCDF | v2.1 | 2021-10-26 | Initial version of Line-of-sight TEC |
IRM | SSC h5 | v1.0 | 2021-10-08 | – Initial version of Sensor Skin Current (SSC) h5 product. – Note that this version supercedes the IRM_skin_current lv1 data product which has now been retired. |
IRM | SSC h5 | v1.1 | 2022-04-20 | eclipse_status and attitude_quality attributes are now returned as lower case strings. |
MGF | lv1b CDF | v0202 | 2022-05-25 | – New format (Swarm-like CDF) – Complete overhaul of calibration – Now includes flags and quality indicators – Now includes attitude and ephemeris data – Now includes CHAOS model magnetic field values |
RRI | lv1 h5 | v11.0 | 2021-09-27 | Updated ephemeris and attitude data to match the CAS_Orbit sp3 ephemeris files and CAS_attQuat attitude data. ** THIS VERSION CONTAINS A TIMING BUG IN THE RADIO DATA (times are off by up to one second) ** |
RRI | lv1 h5 | v12.0 | 2021-10-29 | – Fixed incorrect radio data times – GSM position values are now reported in km |
RRI | lv1 h5 | v13.0 | 2021-11-17 | Fixed creation of preliminary files for times when the orbit data is not available. |