Precise orbit determination for the GOCE satellite using GPS

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1638-1647

  Bock, H ^a   Jaggi A ^a   Svehla D ^b   Beutler, G ^a   Hugentobler, U ^b   Visser, P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CHAMP; GOCE; GPS; GRACE; Precise orbit determination; Zero difference

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INVERSE KINEMATICS; MAGNETOMETERS; ORBITS; SPACE RESEARCH;

CHAMP; EARTH ROTATION PARAMETERS; GRACE; PRECISE ORBIT DETERMINATION; ZERO-DIFFERENCES;

SATELLITES;

EID: 34347245253     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.02.053     Document Type: Article

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