Deriving daily snapshots of the Earth's gravity field from GRACE LIB data using Kalman filtering

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 17, 2009, Pages

  Kurtenbach, Enrico ^a   Mayer Gürr, Torsten ^a   Eicker, Annette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; HYDRAULIC MODELS; KALMAN FILTERS; LASER DAMAGE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES;

COVARIANCE FUNCTION; DATA ANALYSIS; EARTH'S GRAVITY FIELDS; GEOPHYSICAL MODELS; GRAVITY FIELD; GRAVITY FIELD SOLUTION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; KALMAN FILTER ESTIMATION; KALMAN-FILTERING; MEAN FIELD; NEW APPROACHES; TEMPORAL CORRELATIONS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SPAN;

DATA PROCESSING;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; GRAVITY FIELD; INSTRUMENTATION; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 71949092974     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039564     Document Type: Article

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