Precise orbit determination for GRACE using undifferenced or doubly differenced GPS data

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1612-1619

  Jaggi A ^a   Hugentobler, U ^b   Bock, H ^a   Beutler, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ambiguity fixing; GRACE; Pseudo stochastic orbit modeling; Space baseline

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; ORBITS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

AMBIGUITY FIXING; GRACE; PSEUDO-STOCHASTIC ORBIT MODELING; SPACE BASELINE;

SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES;

EID: 34347230113     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.03.012     Document Type: Article

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