Effective processing of measured data from GRACE key payloads and accurate determination of earth's gravitational field

Acta Geophysica Sinica

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1966-1975

  Zheng, Wei ^a,b   Hsu, Houtse ^a   Zhong, Min ^a   Yun, Mei Juan ^c   Zhou, Xu Hua ^a   Peng, Bi Bo ^a  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Earth's gravitational field; Energy conservation principle; GRACE; Key payloads; Measured data

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; DATA PROCESSING; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOID; GPS; GRAVITY FIELD;

EID: 73049103977     PISSN: 00015733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0001-5733.2009.08.003     Document Type: Article

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