Earth scale defined by modern satellite ranging observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1489-1492

  Dunn, Peter ^a   Torrence, Mark ^a   Kolenkiewicz, Ronald ^b   Smith, David ^b  

^a RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; SATELLITES; ERRORS;

GEOCENTRIC GRAVITATIONAL COEFFICIENT; SATELLITE LASER RANGING (SLR);

GEOPHYSICS; TRACKING (POSITION);

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; GEODESY; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ERROR ESTIMATES; PART PER BILLION (PPB); SATELLITE LASER RANGING; SATELLITE RANGING;

EID: 0033562259     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900260     Document Type: Article

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