Improved Determinations of the Earth's Gravity Field

Abstract

Partial contents: An Accurate Non-iterative Algorithm for Computing the Length of a position Vector to a Subsatellite Point; Feasibility of the Short Arc Adjustment Model in SEASAT-a Altimetry Reductions -- Mathematical Outline of the Short Arc Orbital Investigation, and Realistic GEOS-3 and SEASAT- A analysis; Accuracy Improvement in Adjusting Gravity Anomalies; Geopotential Model Containing Spherical Harmonics and Point Masses; Refinement of the Gravity Anomaly Model -- Gravity Anomaly Mathematical Model, Gravity Mathematical Model, Comparison of the Gravity and the Gravity Anomaly Models, Equivalence of the Coefficients, and Equivalence of the Constant Terms.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 31, 1979
Accession Number
ADA070186

Entities

People

  • Georges Blaha

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Computer Simulations
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Data Reduction
  • Gravity
  • Gravity Anomalies
  • Grids
  • Mathematical Models
  • Measurement
  • Notation
  • Reference Ellipsoids
  • Satellite Orbits
  • Spherical Harmonics
  • Three Dimensional

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Orbital Debris