This book covers the entire field of satellite geodesy and is intended to serve as a textbook
for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a reference for professionals …

A spherical harmonic model of the lunar gravity field complete to degree and order 70 has
been developed from S band Doppler tracking data from the Clementine mission, as well as …

The low degree and order terms in the spherical harmonic model of the tidal potential have
been observed through the perturbations which are induced on near‐Earth satellite orbital …

A major new computation of a terrestrial gravitational field model has been performed by the
Geodynamics Branch of Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). In the development of this …

GEM‐T2 is the latest in a series of Goddard Earth models of the terrestrial gravitational field.
It is the second in a planned sequence of gravity models designed to improve both the …

An improved model of Earth's gravitational field, GEM‐T3, has been developed from a
combination of satellite tracking, satellite altimeter, and surface gravimetric data. GEM‐T3 …

A gravitational model incorporating Seasat altimetry, surface gravimetry, and satellite
tracking data has been determined in terms of global spherical harmonics complete to …

Thirteen tidal constituents have been derived from altimetry data [1]. To complement the tidal
spectrum, six long periodic waves are additionally included, which are either taken from …

We have conducted an extensive investigation of orbit determination strategies for the
Geosat Exact Repeat Mission (ERM). The goal of our studies is to establish optimum …

Vertical datum connection is investigated from the viewpoint of quality, ie accuracy and
reliability, based on the method originally proposed by Rummel & Teunissen (1988). Three …