An efficient theoretical model for determining geodetic altitudes with better than millimeter accuracy is proposed, with application to the TOPEX/Poseidon project. The triaxial ellipsoidal subsurface point of a satellite is used as the initial trial solution to achieve an efficient and simple iterative solution. It is found that the second-iteration solution is exact to an accuracy of at least 10 to the -9th km.
Geodetic altitude to a triaxial ellipsoidal planet
1988-09-01
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English
Improved Method for Calculating Exact Geodetic Latitude and Altitude
Online Contents | 1997
|MINIMUM ALTITUDE VARIATION ORBITS ABOUT AN OBLATE PLANET
AIAA | 1963
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