Revisión técnica de los parámetros exigidos para pertenecer a la Red Internacional de Observatorios Magnéticos en Tiempo Real Intermagnet

Abstract

Man has been aware of and magnifying the earth's magnetic field Since the 9th century when a Chinese thought of placing a magnetic needle inside a vessel with water, thus giving the first indications and invention of the compass, it arose from the need to navigators in the open sea, to be able to locate themselves or to know where to go, since they were located by observing the position of the celestial bodies with which they determined the direction where to go, and they could not always see them, since It was because the sky was cloudy or the weather did not help (rain). Only for several centuries, man has been concerned with its monitoring and the construction of maps that see its variation in place and time (Medina, 2012). Colombia has not been oblivious to this activity and in the 1950s I created a geomagnetic observatory with a permanent record located on an island in the Fúquene Cundinamarca lagoon, it was built with international specifications determined for buildings of this nature. Colombia does not belong to the world consortium of institutes that report data almost in real time (INTERMAGNET) (Medina, 2012), despite the importance of the observatory with respect to the location in the equatorial region and also the data it generates, since who are consulted academically for studies of the earth's magnetic field, geophysical prospecting, among other activities.