GOCE Data Processing: The Spherical Cap Regularization Approach

Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 441-462

  Metzler, B ^a   Pail, R ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

GOCE; Gravity gradiometry; Regularization; Spherical harmonics

Indexed keywords

SATELLITE DATA; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

EID: 27644437286     PISSN: 00393169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11200-005-0021-5     Document Type: Article

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