From Mars to Greenland: Charting Gravity with Space and Airborne Instruments: Fields, Tides, Methods, Results

ISBN-13: 9780387978574 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 358 str.

Oscar L. Colombo

Opis

Precise and continuous tracking with multi-satellite systemsof aircraft andlow flying satellites, accurate airbornemeasurement of gravity and gravity gradients, and satellitegradiometry have fundamentally changed our view on the de-termination of the Earth's gravity field.

Spis treści

Preface.- Space Techniques I: Long Wavelengths.- Properties of the Gravity Fields of Terrestrial Planets.- Gravity Modeling of Mars and Venus at NASA/GSFC.- An Improved Model of the Earth’s Gravity Field: GEM-T3.- Performance of Recent Gravity Field Models in Precision Orbit Determination Using Doppler Observations.- Gravity Field Estimation From Future Space Missions: Topex/Poseidon, Gravity Probe-B, and Aristoteles.- Integrated Laser Doppler Method for Measuring Planetary Gravity Fields.- Atmospheric Gravitational Influence on Geodetic Satellite Orbits: STARLETTE Analysis.- Observed Temporal Variations in the Earth’s Gravity Field From 16-year STARLETTE Orbit Analysis.- Space Techniques II: High Resolution.- High Resolution Gravity Models Combining Terrestrial and Satellite Data.- Test Results of Analyzing Altimeter Data by a Quasigeostrophic Model of the Sea Surface Topography.- Sea Surface Height Modeling, Generation and Validation of Sample Products.- A Comparison Between Satellite Gravity Data (Geosat) and Marine Gravity Data Measured in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica.- Effect of Water Vapor Corrections for Satellite Altimeter Measurements of the Geoid.- Aristoteles.- Toward a Gradiometer Analytic Model.- A BVP Approach to the Reduction of Spaceborne Gradiometry: Theory and Simulations.- Results From the Simulations of Geopotential Coefficient Estimation From Gravity Gradients.- Laboratory Demonstrations of Superconducting Gravity and Inertial Sensors for Space and Airborne Gravity Measurements.- Airborne Techniques I: New Results.- The Greenland Aerogeophysics Project: Airborne Gravity, Topographic and Magnetic Mapping of an Entire Continent.- Airborne Gravity Measurements Over the Kelvin Seamount.- Airborne Gravity From a Light Aircraft.- Accuracy of GPS-derived Acceleration From Moving Platform Tests.- Multiple Receiver, Zero-length Baseline Kinematic GPS Positioning Techniques for Airborne Gravity Measurement.- Airborne Techniques II: New Directions.- Airborne Gravimetry, Altimetry, and GPS Navigation Errors.- Requirements for Airborne Vector Gravimetry.- Airborne Vector Gravimetry With an Aided Inertial Survey System.- Controlling Common Mode Stabilization Errors in Airborne Gravity Gradiometry.- GPS/INS Gravity Measurements in Space and on a Balloon.- A BVP Approach to the Reduction of Spaceborne GPS and Accelerometric Observations.- Related Theory.- Walsh-Fourier Series Expansion of the Earth’s Gravitational Potential.- Non-singular Cross-track Derivatives of the Gravitational Potential Using Rotated Spherical Harmonics.- Author Index.