From Mars to Greenland: Charting Gravity With Space and Airborne Instruments: Fields, Tides, Methods, Results

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Properties of the Gravity Fields of Terrestrial Planets....Pages 1-10
Gravity Modeling of Mars and Venus at NASA/GSFC....Pages 11-27
An Improved Model of the Earth’s Gravity Field: GEM-T3....Pages 29-44
Performance of Recent Gravity Field Models in Precision Orbit Determination Using Doppler Observations....Pages 45-50
Gravity Field Estimation from Future Space Missions: TOPEX/POSEIDON, Gravity Probe B, and Aristoteles....Pages 51-61
Integrated Laser Doppler Method for Measuring Planetary Gravity Fields....Pages 63-72
Atmospheric Gravitational Influence on Geodetic Satellite Orbits: Starlette Analysis....Pages 73-81
Observed Temporal Variations in the Earth’s Gravity Field from 16-year Starlette Orbit Analysis....Pages 83-91
High Resolution Gravity Models Combining Terrestrial and Satellite Data....Pages 93-106
Test Results for Analysing Altimeter Data by a Quasi-Geostrophic Model of the Sea Surface Topography....Pages 107-115
Sea Surface Height Modeling, Generation and Validation of Sample Products....Pages 117-127
A Comparison Between Satellite Gravity Data (Geosat) and Marine Gravity Data Measured in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica....Pages 129-138
Effect of Water Vapour Corrections for Satellite Altimeter Measurements of the Geoid....Pages 139-148
Aristoteles....Pages 149-158
Toward a Gradiometer Analytic Model....Pages 159-168
A BVP Approach to the Reduction of Spaceborne Gradiometry: Theory and Simulations....Pages 169-179
Results from the Simulations of Geopotential Coefficient Estimation from Gravity Gradients....Pages 181-189
Laboratory Demonstrations of Superconducting Gravity and Inertial Sensors for Space and Airborne Gravity Measurements....Pages 191-201
The Greenland Aerogeophysics Project: Airborne Gravity, Topographic and Magnetic Mapping of an Entire Continent....Pages 203-214
Airborne Gravity Measurements Over the Kelvin Seamount....Pages 215-224
Airborne Gravimetry from a Light Aircraft....Pages 225-234
Accuracy of GPS-Derived Acceleration from Moving Platform Tests....Pages 235-249
Multiple Receiver, Zero-Length Baseline Kinematic GPS Positioning Techniques for Airborne Gravity Measurement....Pages 251-260
Airborne Gravimetry, Altimetry, and GPS Navigation Errors....Pages 261-271
Requirements for Airborne Vector Gravimetry....Pages 273-283
Airborne Vector Gravimetry with an Aided Inertial Survey System....Pages 285-300
Controlling Common Mode Stabilization Errors in Airborne Gravity Gradiometry....Pages 301-310
GPS/INS Gravity Measurements in Space and on a Balloon....Pages 311-321
A BVP Approach to the Reduction of Spaceborne GPS and Accelerometric Observations....Pages 323-337
Walsh-Fourier Series Expansion of the Earth’s Gravitational Potential....Pages 339-347
Non-Singular Cross-Track Derivatives of the Gravitational Potential Using Rotated Spherical Harmonics....Pages 349-357
Back Matter....Pages 358-358