Satellite-to-Satellite Tracking and Satellite Gravity Gradiometry

  • The purpose of satellite-to-satellite tracking (SST) and/or satellite gravity gradiometry (SGG) is to determine the gravitational field on and outside the Earth's surface from given gradients of the gravitational potential and/or the gravitational field at satellite altitude. In this paper both satellite techniques are analysed and characterized from mathematical point of view. Uniqueness results are formulated. The justification is given for approximating the external gravitational field by finite linear combination of certain gradient fields (for example, gradient fields of single-poles or multi-poles) consistent to a given set of SGG and/or SST data. A strategy of modelling the gravitational field from satellite data within a multiscale concept is described; illustrations based on the EGM96 model are given.

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Author:Willi Freeden, Volker Michel, Helga Nutz
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-10735
Series (Serial Number):Berichte der Arbeitsgruppe Technomathematik (AGTM Report) (236)
Document Type:Preprint
Language of publication:English
Year of Completion:2001
Year of first Publication:2001
Publishing Institution:Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Date of the Publication (Server):2001/03/08
Tag:Earth' clo; fundamental systems; s external gravitational field; satellite gravity gradiometry; satellite-to-satellite tracking; uniqueness
Faculties / Organisational entities:Kaiserslautern - Fachbereich Mathematik
DDC-Cassification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 510 Mathematik
MSC-Classification (mathematics):31-XX POTENTIAL THEORY (For probabilistic potential theory, see 60J45) / 31Bxx Higher-dimensional theory / 31B05 Harmonic, subharmonic, superharmonic functions
35-XX PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS / 35Jxx Elliptic equations and systems [See also 58J10, 58J20] / 35J05 Laplacian operator, reduced wave equation (Helmholtz equation), Poisson equation [See also 31Axx, 31Bxx]
86-XX GEOPHYSICS [See also 76U05, 76V05] / 86Axx Geophysics [See also 76U05, 76V05] / 86A20 Potentials, prospecting
86-XX GEOPHYSICS [See also 76U05, 76V05] / 86Axx Geophysics [See also 76U05, 76V05] / 86A30 Geodesy, mapping problems
Licence (German):Standard gemäß KLUEDO-Leitlinien vor dem 27.05.2011