Low-degree earth deformation from reprocessed GPS observations

GPS Solutions

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 165-175

  Fritsche, Mathias ^a   Dietrich, R ^a   Rulke A ^a   Rothacher, M ^b   Steigenberger, P ^c  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

GPS; Surface mass redistribution; Terrestrial reference frame

Indexed keywords

CENTER OF MASS; EARTH DEFORMATION; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT SATELLITES; HIGHER ORDER; INTERANNUAL; LONG-TERM VARIATIONS; MODELING APPROACH; PARAMETER COMBINATION; RESIDUAL DISPLACEMENT; SATELLITE ORBIT; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; SURFACE LOADS; SURFACE MASS; TERRESTRIAL REFERENCE FRAME;

COLOR; GEODETIC SATELLITES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; TRACKING (POSITION);

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ANNUAL VARIATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTH; GPS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IONOSPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SATELLITE SENSOR; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ALIAS;

EID: 77951296680     PISSN: 10805370     EISSN: 15211886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10291-009-0130-7     Document Type: Article

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