Multiscale Gravitational Field Recovery from GPS-Satellite-to-Satellite Tracking
- The purpose of GPS-satellite-to-satellite tracking (GPS-SST) is to determine the gravitational potential at the earth's surface from measured ranges (geometrical distances) between a low-flying satellite and the high-flying satellites of the Global Posittioning System (GPS). In this paper GPS-satellite-to-satellite tracking is reformulated as the problem of determining the gravitational potential of the earth from given gradients at satellite altitude. Uniqueness and stability of the solution are investigated. The essential tool is to split the gradient field into a normal part (i.e. the first order radial derivative) and a tangential part (i.e. the surface gradient). Uniqueness is proved for polar, circular orbits corresponding to both types of data (first radial derivative and/or surface gradient). In both cases gravity recovery based on satellite-to-satellite tracking turns out to be an exponentially ill-posed problem. As an appropriate solution method regularization in terms of spherical wavelets is proposed based on the knowledge of the singular system. Finally, the extension of this method is generalized to a non-spherical earth and a non-spherical orbital surface based on combined terrestrial and satellite data material.
Verfasser*innenangaben: | Willi Freeden, Oliver Glockner, Markus Thalhammer |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-6014 |
Schriftenreihe (Bandnummer): | Berichte der Arbeitsgruppe Technomathematik (AGTM Report) (195) |
Dokumentart: | Preprint |
Sprache der Veröffentlichung: | Englisch |
Jahr der Fertigstellung: | 1999 |
Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 1999 |
Veröffentlichende Institution: | Technische Universität Kaiserslautern |
Datum der Publikation (Server): | 03.04.2000 |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | GPS-satellite-to-satellite tracking; formulation as integral equation; regularization by wavelets; uniqueness |
Fachbereiche / Organisatorische Einheiten: | Kaiserslautern - Fachbereich Mathematik |
DDC-Sachgruppen: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 510 Mathematik |
Lizenz (Deutsch): | Standard gemäß KLUEDO-Leitlinien vor dem 27.05.2011 |