A covariance analysis is presented for a differential GPS-based technique for satellite tracking and gravity recovery to be demonstrated on Topex in the early 1990's. The technique employs data from an ensemble of repeat ground tracks to recover a unique satellite epoch state for each track and a set of invariant local gravity parameters common to all tracks. For satellites above about 800 km altitude, where gravity modeling is the domiant systematic error, averaging of random error over many arcs and adjustment of the gravity model reduces the final satellite position error. The local gravity parameters can then be used to produce a refined global gravity model. The analysis indicates that errors ranging from 5 to 8 cm in Topex altitude and 0.05 to 0.2 mgal for the gravity field can be achieved, depending on the number of repeat arcs used.


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    Title :

    Topex orbit determination and gravity recovery using GPS data from repeat orbits


    Additional title:

    Bestimmung der TOPEX-Umlaufbahn und der durch Schwerkraft bedingten Lagestabilisierung unter Verwendung von Daten aus bekannten Orbits


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    AIAA-Papers ; Jan ; 1-11


    Publication date :

    1988


    Size :

    11 Seiten, 6 Bilder, 13 Tabellen, 12 Quellen


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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