Theory of Satellite Geodesy and Gravity Field Determination

Introduction....Pages 1-5
Introduction to classical mechanics....Pages 9-68
Lectures in celestial mechanics....Pages 69-114
Four lectures on special and general relativity....Pages 115-151
Reference coordinate systems: An update....Pages 153-196
Gravity field recovery from satellite tracking data....Pages 197-234
Fundamentals of orbit determination....Pages 235-260
Combination of Satellite, Altimetric and Terrestrial Gravity Data....Pages 261-284
Summer school lectures on satellite altimetry....Pages 285-334
Advanced techniques for high-resolution mapping of the gravitational field....Pages 335-369
The integrated approach to satellite geodesy....Pages 373-416
Determination of a local geodetic network by multi-arc processing of satellite laser ranges....Pages 417-445
Boundary value problems and invariants of the gravitational tensor in satellite gradiometry....Pages 447-457
A possible application of the space VLBI observations for establishment of a new connection of reference frames....Pages 459-475
Optimization of the reordering algorithm for least squares problems relevant to space geodesy....Pages 477-491