MagNav related publications

Author
Affiliation

Aaron Nielsen

Air Force Institute of Technology

Published

June 29, 2025

Blakely, B., Bonifaz, J., & Nielsen, A. (2025). Tolles-lawson coefficient dependence on an F-16. Navigation, to Be Submitted.
Blakely, B., & Nielsen, A. (2025). Analysis of magnetic anomaly maps and navigation performance using flight test data. 2025 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS), Salt Lake City, UT, 802–808.
Nielsen, A., & Saltus, R. (2025). Review of magnetic anomaly navigation. Navigation, to Be Submitted.
Blakely, B., Nielsen, A., Brinkley, D., & Cameron-Gonzalez, A. (2025, June). Magnetic anomaly map error analysis. Joint Navigation Conference 2025.
Blakely, B., Sharma, R., Nielsen, A., & Taylor, C. (2025, June). MagNet: Magnetic networks for navigation. Joint Navigation Conference 2025.
Duff, P., & Nielsen, A. (2025, June). Reference magnetic maps in marine areas from legacy data: Quantitative comparison of frequency dependent features, errors, and uncertainties in gridded magnetic data. Joint Navigation Conference 2025.
Kurdian, A., Brink, K., McNally, B., Smearcheck, M., & Nielsen, A. (2025, June). Magnetic and gravity-based experimental navigation test and assessment (MAGENTA). Joint Navigation Conference 2025.
Whitney, S., & Nielsen, A. (2025, June). Factor graph-based magnetic anomaly navigation: A robust bayesian inference approach. Joint Navigation Conference 2025.
Duff, P., & Nielsen, A. (2024). Magnetic map-making for advanced applications: Quantitative comparison of frequency dependent features, errors, and uncertainties in gridded magnetic data. AGU 2024.
Lathrop, F. W., Taylor, C. N., & Nielsen, A. P. (2024). Magnetic sensor compensation using factor graph estimation. IEEE Sensors Journal, 24(15), 23711–23722. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2024.3416618
Lathrop, F., Nielsen, A., & Taylor, C. (2024). Magnetic sensor compensation utilizing factor graph estimation. ION Joint Navigation Conference 2024. https://www.ion.org/jnc/abstracts.cfm?paperID=13344
Moradi, M., Zhai, Z.-M., Nielsen, A., & Lai, Y.-C. (2024). Random forests for detecting weak signals and extracting physical information: A case study of magnetic navigation. APL Machine Learning, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0189564
Blakely, B., Bonifaz, J., & Nielsen, A. (2024, June). Improving tolles-lawson calibration with F-16 data. ION Joint Navigation Conference 2024. https://www.ion.org/jnc/abstracts.cfm?paperID=13247
Rutkowski, A., Kerr, D., & Nielsen, A. (2024, June). On the accuracy of upward continuation and interpolation of magnetic anomaly maps. ION Joint Navigation Conference 2024. https://www.ion.org/jnc/abstracts.cfm?paperID=13329
Srinivasan, A., & Nielsen, A. (2024, June). Temporal anomaly corrections for magnetic anomaly navigation. ION Joint Navigation Conference 2024. https://www.ion.org/jnc/abstracts.cfm?paperID=13252
Whitney, S., Nielsen, A., & Grass, F. van. (2024, June). Comparative study of transect batch processing using variable map fidelity for magnetic anomaly navigation. ION Joint Navigation Conference 2024. https://www.ion.org/jnc/abstracts.cfm?paperID=13338
Blakely, B., Bonifaz, J., & Nielsen, A. (2024, September). Magnetic calibration for navigation interpretation and applicability. ION GNSS+ 2024. https://www.ion.org/gnss/abstracts.cfm?paperID=13837
Whitney, S., Nielsen, A., & Grass, F. van. (2024, September). Magnetic anomaly navigation using a multi-vehicle batch processing algorithm of variable map fidelity. ION GNSS+ 2024. https://www.ion.org/gnss/abstracts.cfm?paperID=13646
Duff, P., & Nielsen, A. (2023). Comparative uncertainty estimation for global magnetic grids: Machine learning and statistical approaches. Proceedings of American Geophyiscal Union 2023.
Duff, P., & Nielsen, A. (2023). Estimating frequency dependent errors and uncertainties in gridded magnetic data, GP33D-0597, AGU23 11-15 dec.
Srinivasan, A., Bergeron, L., & Nielsen, A. (2023). Extended geomagnetic ground reference station model and noise characterization, GP33D-0600, AGU23 11-15 dec. Presented at AGU23 11-15 Dec.
Nielsen, A. (2023). 2023 PLANS MagNav tutorial. Tutorial presentation at IEEE/ION PLANS 2023. https://afit-eeng-magnav.github.io/2023-PLANS-MagNav-Tutorial/
Nielsen, A., & Saltus, R. (2023). MagNav workshop. Workshop presentations at IEEE/ION PLANS 2023. https://afit-eeng-magnav.github.io/2023-PLANS-MagNav-Workshop/
Bergeron, L., & Nielsen, A. (2023, April). Magnetic anomaly mapping for navigation. 2023 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS). https://doi.org/10.1109/plans53410.2023.10140125
Nielsen, A. (2023). Machine learning for magnetic anomaly navigation. Presented at Wright-Brothers Insitute AI/ML Collider Event. https://afit-eeng-magnav.github.io/2023-05-17-wbi-collider/
Bergeron, L., & Nielsen, A. (2023, June). Magnetic anomaly mapping for navigation. 2023 Joint Navigation Conference.
Blakely, B., Bonifaz, J., & Nielsen, A. (2023, September). Tolles-lawson coefficient dependence using F-16 data set. Proceedings of GNSS+ 2023. https://www.ion.org/gnss/abstracts.cfm?paperID=12765
Canciani, A., & Nielsen, A. (2023). Absolute positioning using magnetic anomaly fields: An introduction to the technique and a summary of extensive ongoing development of aircraft, surface ship, and sub-surface ship navigation systems utilizing earth magnetic anomaly fields to navigate. (Invited) GP32A-03 (GP32A-03). AGU 2023.
Gnadt, A. R., Wollaber, A. B., & Nielsen, A. P. (2022). Derivation and extensions of the Tolles-Lawson model for aeromagnetic compensation. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2212.09899
Nielsen, A., & Gray, J. (2022). Magnetic anomaly navigation: Operational aircraft sensors. ION JNC 2022.
Nielsen, A. (2022). Machine learning for magnetic navigation. Presented at September Meeting of Gem City Tech Machine Learning Group. https://gemcityml.com/magnav_contest/
Lathrop, F., Taylor, C., & Nielsen, A. (2022, October). Accurate magnetic field compensation in large platform fields. ION GNSS+, the International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.33012/2022.18538
Nielsen, A., Gray, J., & Bonifaz, J. (2022, October). Accounting for magnetic anomaly map artifacts in magnetic navigators. ION GNSS+ 2022. https://doi.org/10.33012/2022.18323
Nielsen, A., Gray, J., Curro, J., Boettcher, E. J., & Leishman, R. (2021). Operationalizing MagNav. ION JNC 2021.
Samanant, P., Stephens, T., Compton, R., Morton, B., Canciani, A., & Nielsen, A. (2021). Honeywell magnetic anomaly aided navigation. ION JNC 2021.
Gnadt, A. R., Belarge, J., Canciani, A., Carl, G., Conger, L., Curro, J., Edelman, A., Morales, P., Nielsen, A. P., O’Keeffe, M. F., Rackauckas, C. V., Taylor, J., & Wollaber, A. B. (2020). Signal enhancement for magnetic navigation challenge problem. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2007.12158