Precise orbit determination and gravity field improvement for the ERS satellites

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 103, Issue 3334, 1998, Pages 8113-8127

  Remko, K ^a   Visser, Pieter ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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