Alternative mission architectures for a gravity recovery satellite mission

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 569-581

  Wiese, D N ^a   Folkner, William M ^b   Nerem, R S ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aliasing; Cartwheel orbits; GRACE; GRACE follow on mission; Temporal gravity

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GRAVITY FIELD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE LASER RANGING; SATELLITE MISSION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 67349270963     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: 14321394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-008-0274-1     Document Type: Article

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