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.

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19eee527-9402-4585-a6c7-1130329712ea XML
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2d69ee54-ca37-8500-2567-2041406262f5
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https://doi.org/10.25928/bgrseis_1001-ifsd

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  • Geoscientific information
 

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  • infrasound

  • International Monitoring System

  • IMS

  • CTBT

  • space mission

  • rocket launch

  • atmosphere

  • geophysics

  • Ground Truth

  • Infraschall

  • Raketenstart

  • Weltraummission

  • opendata
 
 

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2021-03-19
 

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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).
 

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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.
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Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR)
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infrainfo@bgr.de

 

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Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR)
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infrainfo@bgr.de

 

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Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR)
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geodatenmanagement@bgr.de

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2026-01-13
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English
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CTBT Ground Truth IMS Infraschall International Monitoring System Raketenstart Weltraummission atmosphere geophysics infrasound opendata rocket launch space mission

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