Assessment of GPS-only Observables for Gravity Field Recovery from GRACE

International Association of Geodesy Symposia

Volumn 133, Issue , 2009, Pages 113-123

  Jaggi A ^a   Beutler, G ^a   Prange, L ^a   Dach, R ^a   Mervart, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Ambiguity fixing; GRACE; Gravity field recovery; Kinematic orbit determination

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY-FIXING; EARTH'S GRAVITY FIELDS; FORMATION-FLYING SATELLITES; GRACE; GRAVITY FIELD RECOVERY; KINEMATIC ORBIT; LOW EARTH ORBITING SATELLITES; SPACEBORNE GPS RECEIVERS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; KINEMATICS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 84861827456     PISSN: 09399585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85426-5_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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