CHAMP gravity field recovery using the energy balance approach

Advances in Geosciences

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 73-80

  Gerlach, Ch ^a   Sneeuw, N ^b   Visser, P ^c   Svehla D ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accelerometer calibration; CHAMP; Energy balance; Gravity field; Jacobi integral; Non conservative forces

Indexed keywords

ENERGY BALANCE; GEODESY; GRAVITY FIELD; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE MISSION;

EID: 0344115622     PISSN: 16807340     EISSN: 16807359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/adgeo-1-73-2003     Document Type: Article

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