From Mars to Greenland: Charting Gravity With Space and Airborne Instruments

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Space Techniques I: Long Wavelengths

   1. Properties of the Gravity Fields of Terrestrial Planets

      • William M. Kaula

      Pages 1-10

   2. Gravity Modeling of Mars and Venus at NASA/GSFC

      • D. E. Smith, R. S. Nerem

      Pages 11-27

   3. An Improved Model of the Earth’s Gravity Field: GEM-T3

      • R. S. Nerem, F. J. Lerch, B. H. Putney, S. M. Klosko, G. B. Patel, R. G. Williamson et al.

      Pages 29-44

   4. Performance of Recent Gravity Field Models in Precision Orbit Determination Using Doppler Observations

      • Patrick J. Fell, C. Harris Seay

      Pages 45-50

   5. Gravity Field Estimation from Future Space Missions: TOPEX/POSEIDON, Gravity Probe B, and Aristoteles

      • Erricos C. Pavlis

      Pages 51-61

   6. Integrated Laser Doppler Method for Measuring Planetary Gravity Fields

      • Peter L. Bender

      Pages 63-72

   7. Atmospheric Gravitational Influence on Geodetic Satellite Orbits: Starlette Analysis

      • B. Fong Chao, Joseph C. Chan

      Pages 73-81

   8. Observed Temporal Variations in the Earth’s Gravity Field from 16-year Starlette Orbit Analysis

      • M. K. Cheng, R. J. Eanes, C. K. Shum, B. E. Schutz, B. D. Tapley

      Pages 83-91

3. Space Techniques II: High Resolution

   1. High Resolution Gravity Models Combining Terrestrial and Satellite Data

      • Richard H. Rapp, Nikolaos K. Pavlis, Yan Ming Wang

      Pages 93-106

   2. Test Results for Analysing Altimeter Data by a Quasi-Geostrophic Model of the Sea Surface Topography

      • Norbert Arent, Gabriele Hückelheim, Karl-Rudolf Koch

      Pages 107-115

   3. Sea Surface Height Modeling, Generation and Validation of Sample Products

      • W. Bosch, M. Anzenhofer, N. Spöcker

      Pages 117-127

   4. A Comparison Between Satellite Gravity Data (Geosat) and Marine Gravity Data Measured in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica

      • Arnold L. Brodscholl, Ute C. Herzfeld, David T. Sandwell

      Pages 129-138

   5. Effect of Water Vapour Corrections for Satellite Altimeter Measurements of the Geoid

      • Jonas P. Noréus

      Pages 139-148

   6. Aristoteles

      • Miguel Angel Aguirre-Martinez, Maurice Schuyer, Pier Luigi Silvestrin

      Pages 149-158

   7. Toward a Gradiometer Analytic Model

      • Dave Sonnabend

      Pages 159-168

   8. A BVP Approach to the Reduction of Spaceborne Gradiometry: Theory and Simulations

      • M. Brovelli, F. Migliaccio, F. Sansó

      Pages 169-179

   9. Results from the Simulations of Geopotential Coefficient Estimation from Gravity Gradients

      • S. Bettadpur, B. E. Schutz, J. B. Lundberg

      Pages 181-189

   10. Laboratory Demonstrations of Superconducting Gravity and Inertial Sensors for Space and Airborne Gravity Measurements

       • Ho Jung Paik, Edgar R. Canavan, Qin Kong, M. Vol Moody

       Pages 191-201

4. Airborne Techniques I: New Results

   1. The Greenland Aerogeophysics Project: Airborne Gravity, Topographic and Magnetic Mapping of an Entire Continent

      • J. M. Brozena

      Pages 203-214

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.

• Computermodelle
• GPS (= Global Positioning System)
• Gravity
• Greenland
• Grönland
• Orbit
• Radiometer
• Satelliten
• Schwerefeld
• airborne
• computational modeling
• geodesy
• geophysics
• satellite
• satellite imagery

• Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA

  Oscar L. Colombo

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