Overview
New and more accurate techniques for satellite gravimetry will be available soon, with promising applications in Earth sciences
With this special issue we want to stimulate the discussion among Earth scientists on objectives and preferences for future satellite gravimetry missions. This is an urgently needed discussion
Visions for follow-on missions have to be developed today, if we want them to be realized within 10 years, given the required preparation time of such satellite missions
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Currently, a first generation of dedicated satellite missions for the precise mapping of the Earth’s gravity field is in orbit (CHAMP, GRACE, and soon GOCE). The gravity data from these satellite missions provide us with very new information on the dynamics of planet Earth. In particular, on the mass distribution in the Earth’s interior, the entire water cycle (ocean circulation, ice mass balance, continental water masses, and atmosphere), and on changes in the mass distribution.
The results are fascinating, but still rough with respect to spatial and temporal resolution. Technical progress in satellite-to-satellite tracking and in gravity gradiometry will allow more detailed results in the future. In this special issue, Earth scientists develop visions of future applications based on follow-on high-precision satellite gravimetry missions.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
The authors have played key roles in gravity field research, and in particular for the preparation of the current gravity field satellite missions CHAMP, GRACE and GOCE. They are members of several mission advisory boards. They presented their work with many contributions at international conferences such as EGU, AGU, IUGG.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Future Satellite Gravimetry and Earth Dynamics
Editors: Jakob Flury, Reiner Rummel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-33185-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-29796-5Published: 10 May 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-2131-4Published: 29 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-33185-0Published: 25 January 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 164
Additional Information: Reprinted from EARTH, MOON, AND PLANETS, 94/1-2
Topics: Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Geophysics/Geodesy