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

by Oscar L. Colombo (Editor)

Overview

Precise and continuous tracking with multi-satellite systems of aircraft andlow flying satellites, accurate airborne measurement of gravity and gravity gradients, and satellite gradiometry have fundamentally changed our view on the de-
termination of the Earth's gravity field. The papers in this volume describe these techniques in detail. The ideas are presentedas complementary, and are used to develop new theoretical concepts of gravity field analysis. Computatio-
nal models using these techniques are also discussed and are tested in simulations.
The papers presented in this volume are the result of an IAG symposium held during the XX General Assembly of the Inter-
national Union of Geodesy and Geophysics in Vienna, Austria,
August 11-24, 1991.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387978574
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	09/23/1992
Series:	International Association of Geodesy Symposia , #110
Edition description:	1992
Pages:	358
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 11.02(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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.