ERS-2 orbit computations using CHAMP- or GRACE-based gravity field models

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 454-459

  Visser, P N A M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CHAMP; ERS 2; GRACE; Gravity field; Orbit determination; PRARE; SLR; TOPEX

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; COMPUTATION THEORY; ERRORS; GRAVITATION; LASER THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORBITS; SATELLITES;

CHAMP; ERS-2; GRACE; GRAVITY FIELDS; ORBIT DETERMINATION; PRECISE RANGE AND RANGE-RATE EQUIPMENT (PRARE); SATELLITE LASER RANGING (SLR); TOPEX;

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 27744591390     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.04.054     Document Type: Conference Paper

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