The use of laser altimetry in the orbit and attitude determination of mars global surveyor

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1191-1194

  Rowlands, D D ^a   Pavlis, D E ^b   Lemoine, F G ^a   Neumann, G A ^a,c   Luthcke, S B ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Raytheon ITSS   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; LASER ALTIMETRY; MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR; MARS OBSERVER LASER ALTIMETER; ATTITUDE DETERMINATION; CONSTRAINT EQUATION; LASER ALTIMETER; MARS OBSERVERS; SLOPING TERRAINS; SMALL FOOTPRINTS;

ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LASER APPLICATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; ORBITS; PLANETS; SPACECRAFT; ANEROID ALTIMETERS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SURVEYING;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; ORBITS;

ALTIMETRY;

EID: 0033134173     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900223     Document Type: Article

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