The celestial mechanics approach: Theoretical foundations

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 605-624

  Beutler, Gerhard ^a   Jäggi, Adrian ^a   Mervart, L ^b   Meyer, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Celestial mechanics; CHAMP; Global gravity field modeling; GRACE; Orbit determination

Indexed keywords

GPS; GRACE; GRAVIMETRY; GRAVITY FIELD; MODELING; ORBIT DETERMINATION;

EID: 77956871245     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: 14321394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-010-0401-7     Document Type: Article

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