INDIGO: Better Geomagnetic Observatories Where We Need Them

Pavel Borodin, Jorge Brenes, Elias Daudi, Noor Efendi, Simon Flower, Muhammad Hidayat, Muhammad Husni, Manuel Kampine, Oleg Kusonski, Artur Langa, Iván Monge, Antonio Mucussete, Armindo Nhatsave, I Kadek Oca Santika, Jean Rasson, John Riddick, Didik Suharyadi, Christopher Turbitt, and Mahmud Yusuf Arti observatory, Institute of Geophysics, Urals Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, ICE, Costa Rica Direcção Nacional de Geologia, Moçambique Meteorological and Geophysical Agency, BMD, Indonesia British Geological Survey, Seismology and Geomagnetism Institut Royal Météorologique, Centre de Physique du Globe, Belgium Email : [email protected] Retired from British Geological Survey, Seismology and Geomagnetism Direcção Provincial de Recursos Minerais, Nampula, Moçambique ABSTRACT Good magnetic observatories are needed more than ever for global modeling and navigation. Magnetic satellite missions, once said to be the death of ground based observations, are now demanding quality data from fixed observations points on the Earth.