Assessment of three numerical solution strategies for gravity field recovery from GOCE satellite gravity gradiometry implemented on a parallel platform

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 76, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 462-474

  Pail, R ^a   Plank, G ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Beowulf cluster; Gravity field and steady state ocean circulation explorer; Parallel computing; Satellite gravity gradiometry; Spherical harmonics

Indexed keywords

GEODESY; GRAVIMETRY; GRAVITY FIELD; NUMERICAL METHOD; SATELLITE DATA; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

EID: 0036868461     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-002-0277-2     Document Type: Article

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