Mission design, operation and exploitation of the gravity field and steady-state ocean circulation explorer mission

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 749-758

  Floberghagen, Rune ^a   Fehringer, Michael ^a   Lamarre, Daniel ^a   Muzi, Danilo ^a   Frommknecht, Björn ^a   Steiger, Christoph ^a   Piñeiro, Juan ^a   da Costa, Andrea ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

Author keywords

Data quality; GOCE; Gravity gradients; Mission operations

Indexed keywords

DATA QUALITY; GEOID; GPS; GRAVITY ANOMALY; GRAVITY FIELD; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; RADAR ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 80054113426     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: 14321394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-011-0498-3     Document Type: Article

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