GRACE Gravity Field Determination Using the Celestial Mechanics Approach - First Results

International Association of Geodesy Symposia

Volumn 135, Issue , 2010, Pages 177-184

  Jaggi A ^a   Beutler, G ^a   Mervart, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Background models; GRACE; Gravity field determination; hl SST data; ll SST data

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND MODEL; GRACE; GRAVITY FIELD; HL-SST DATA; LL-SST DATA;

ACCELEROMETERS; ASTROPHYSICS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; MECHANICS; OBSERVATORIES;

GRAVITATION;

EID: 84884393457     PISSN: 09399585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10634-7_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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