Energy integral method for gravity field determination from satellite orbit coordinates

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 207-216

  Visser, P N A M ^a   Sneeuw, N ^b   Gerlach, C ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c Inst Astronomische/Physikalische   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accelerometer observations; Block diagonal matrix; Energy integral; Gravity field determination; Orbit coordinates; Orbit errors

Indexed keywords

GPS; GRAVITY FIELD; ORBIT DETERMINATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 0042208303     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-003-0315-8     Document Type: Article

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