Regional gravity modeling in terms of spherical base functions

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-38

  Schmidt, Michael ^a   Fengler, Martin ^b   Mayer Gürr, Torsten ^c   Eicker, Annette ^c   Kusche, Jürgen ^d   Sánchez, Laura ^a   Han, Shin Chan ^e  

^a Deutsches Geod atisches Forschungsinstitut DGFI   (Germany)

^b Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Challenging Minisatellite Payload (CHAMP) and Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE); Multi resolution representation; Regional gravity modeling; Spherical radial base functions; Spherical wavelets

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; GRAVITY FIELD; GRAVITY SURVEY; MODELING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SATELLITE MISSION; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; WAVELET;

EID: 33845903087     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: 14321394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-006-0101-5     Document Type: Article

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