Collects the results of the initial 3-year phase of the German R&D programme GEOTECHNOLOGIEN.
An overview of the state-of-the-art of research on the theme "Observation of the Earth system from space", the book serves as inspiration for the second phase and future research work in related fields.
In the recent years, space-based observation methods have led to a subst- tially improved understanding of Earth system. Geodesy and geophysics are contributing to this development by measuring the temporal and spatial va- ations of the Earth’s shape, gravity ?eld, and magnetic ?eld, as well as at- sphere density. In the frame of the GermanR&D programmeGEOTECHNO- LOGIEN,researchprojectshavebeen launchedin2002relatedto the satellite missions CHAMP, GRACE and ESA’s planned mission GOCE, to comp- mentary terrestrial and airborne sensor systems and to consistent and stable high-precision global reference systems for satellite and other techniques. In the initial 3-year phase of the research programme (2002-2004), new gravity ?eld models have been computed from CHAMP and GRACE data which outperform previous models in accuracy by up to two orders of m- nitude for the long and medium wavelengths. A special highlight is the - termination of seasonal gravity variations caused by changes in continental water masses. For GOCE, to be launched in 2006, new gravity ?eld analysis methods are under development and integrated into the ESA processing s- tem. 200,000 GPS radio occultation pro?les, observed by CHAMP, have been processed on an operational basis. They represent new and excellent inf- mation on atmospheric refractivity, temperature and water vapor. These new developments require geodetic space techniques (such as VLBI, SLR, LLR, GPS) to be combined and synchronized as if being one global instrument.
Editors and Affiliations
Institut für Astonomische Physikalische Geodäsie, TU München, München, Germany
J. Flury,
R. Rummel
Dept. 1, Geodäsie und Fernerkundung Telegrafenberg, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
C. Reigber,
M. Rothacher
Bayerische Kommission für die Internationale Erdmessung, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, München, Germany
G. Boedecker
Forschungseinrichtung Satellitengeodäsie Fundamentalstation Wettzell, TU München, Kötzting, Germany
U. Schreiber
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Observation of the Earth System from Space
Editors: J. Flury, R. Rummel, C. Reigber, M. Rothacher, G. Boedecker, U. Schreiber
