The development and evaluation of the Earth Gravitational Model 2008 (EGM2008)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Pavlis, Nikolaos K ^a   Holmes, Simon A ^b   Kenyon, Steve C ^c   Factor, John K ^c  

^a National Geospatial Intelligence Agency   (United States)

^b SGT INC   (United States)

^c National Geospatial Intelligence Agency   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETRY; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DEFLECTION; EARTH; ERROR ANALYSIS; GPS; GRAVITY FIELD; GRAVITY SURVEY; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL;

AUSTRALIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84860274229     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008916     Document Type: Article

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