Satellite clusters for future gravity field missions

International Association of Geodesy Symposia

Volumn 129, Issue , 2005, Pages 12-17

  Sneeuw, Nico ^a,b   Schaub, Hanspeter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGE RESOLUTION; TRACKING (POSITION);

ATOMIC INTERFERENCE; EARTH'S GRAVITY FIELDS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LOW EARTH SATELLITES; SATELLITE CLUSTERS; SATELLITE FORMATIONS; SATELLITE GRAVIMETRIES; SATELLITE-TO-SATELLITE TRACKING;

ORBITS;

EID: 34447255578     PISSN: 09399585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-26932-0_3     Document Type: Article

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