Infrasonic Signatures of 1001 Rocket Launches for Space Missions

Rocket launches for space missions are well-defined ground-truth events generating strong infrasonic signatures. This data set covers ground-truth information for 1001 rocket launches from 27 global spaceports between 2009 and mid-2020. Infrasound signatures from up to 73% of the launches were identified at infrasound arrays of the International Monitoring System. The detection parameters were obtained using the Progressive Multi-Channel Correlation (PMCC) algorithm. Propagation and quality parameters supplement the PMCC detection parameters in this dataset. The results are provided for further use as a ground-truth reference in geophysical and atmospheric research. The open-access publication “1001 Rocket Launches for Space Missions and their Infrasonic Signature” (Pilger et al., 2021, Geophys. Res. Letters, doi:10.1029/2020GL092262) provides further details on this data set. Data format: The data are provided both as ASCII files (separate lists of infrasound signatures and rocket launch events, plus README files) and as a comprehensive netCDF file.

Citation proposal
(2021) . Infrasonic Signatures of 1001 Rocket Launches for Space Missions. https://gdk.gdi-de.org/geonetwork/srv/api/records/19eee527-9402-4585-a6c7-1130329712ea

Identification

Data identification

Citation

Alternate title: Rocket-Infrasound

Date ( Publication ): 2021-03-19

Identifier: 2d69ee54-ca37-8500-2567-2041406262f5

Identifier: https://doi.org/10.25928/bgrseis_1001-ifsd

Author

Hupe, Patrick

Author

Pilger, Christoph

Author

Gaebler, Peter

Author

Ceranna, Lars

Status: completed Completed

Point of contact

Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR)

Stilleweg 2 Hannover 30655 Deutschland

Keywords ( Theme )

infrasound
International Monitoring System
IMS
CTBT
space mission
rocket launch
atmosphere
geophysics
Ground Truth
Infraschall
Raketenstart
Weltraummission
opendata

Legal constraints

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Legal constraints

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; in the event of further use, both the data source (doi:10.25928/bgrseis_1001-ifsd) and the accompanying publication (Pilger et al., 2021; doi:10.1029/2020GL092262) must be cited. Lizenz: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; bei Weiterverwendung sind sowohl die Datenquelle (doi:10.25928/bgrseis_1001-ifsd) als auch die zugehörige Publikation (Pilger et al., 2021; doi:10.1029/2020GL092262) zu zitieren.

Other constraints: {"id": "cc-by-nc-sa/4.0", "name": "Creative Commons Namensnennung - Nicht-kommerziell - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 International", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/", "quelle": "Rocket-Infrasound © BGR, Hannover, 2021, doi:10.25928/bgrseis_1001-ifsd"}

Spatial representation type: Text, table

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Distribution

Distribution format

Daten (diverse Formate) (n/a )

Digital transfer options

Transfer size: 2

OnLine resource: Rocket-Infrasound (Daten (diverse Formate))
Rocket-Infrasound im Format ASCII / NetCDF

OnLine resource: Geophysical Research Letters
Geophysical Research Letters

OnLine resource: Infraschall-Stationsnetz des IMS
Infraschall-Stationsnetz des IMS

Quality

Data quality

Scope

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Statement: As the German National Data Centre for the CTBT, BGR archives waveform data of IMS infrasound arrays and produces infrasound detection lists using the Progressive Multi-Channel Correlation (PMCC) algorithm. For more than a decade of rocket launches for space missions, an automatic procedure was established for identifying PMCC detections that are potentially associated with a rocket launch. Additional quality parameters were introduced to classify the infrasonic signatures, as described in detail by Pilger et al. (2021).