Preprocessing of gravity gradients at the GOCE high-level processing facility

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 659-678

  Bouman, Johannes ^a,b,c   Rispens, Sietse ^a   Gruber, Thomas ^d   Koop, Radboud ^e   Schrama, Ernst ^b   Visser, Pieter ^b   Tscherning, Carl Christian ^f   Veicherts, Martin ^f  

^a SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c Deutsches Geod atisches Forschungsinstitut DGFI   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e University of Copenhagen ^*  (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Calibration; GOCE; Gravity gradients; High level processing facility; Preprocessing

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRECTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEODESY; GPS; GRAVIMETRY; GRAVITY FIELD; GRAVITY SURVEY; PARAMETERIZATION; SATELLITE DATA; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 67649770273     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: 14321394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-008-0279-9     Document Type: Article

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