GFZ-1: A small laser satellite mission for gravity field model improvement

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 22, 1996, Pages 3143-3146

  König, Rolf ^a,c   Schwintzer, Peter ^a,b   Bode, Albert ^a,c   Reigber, Christoph ^a,b  

^a Div I 'Kinematics/Dynam Earth'   (Germany)

^b GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORBITS; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; SATELLITES; TRACKING (POSITION);

GEOPOTENTIAL; GLOBAL GEOID AND GRAVITY FIELD MODEL; GRAVITATIONAL ORBIT PERTURBATION; INTERNATIONAL LASER RANGING NET; PASSIVE LASER SATELLITES; SATELLITE TRACKING; SPHERICAL HARMONIC EXPANSION;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; ORBITS;

GEODESY; GFZ-1; GRAVITY FIELD; LASER SATELLITE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE MISSION;

EARTH'S GRAVITY FIELDS; GRAVITY FIELD MODEL; ORBIT PERTURBATIONS; SATELLITE MISSION; SATELLITE TRACKING DATA; SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES; SMALL SATELLITE MISSION; SPHERICAL HARMONIC EXPANSIONS;

EID: 0030292159     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02574     Document Type: Article

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