Goddard Earth Models (5 and 6)

Lerch, F.J.; Wagner, C.A.; Richardson, J.A.; Brownd, J.E.

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Goddard Earth Models (5 and 6)

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Lerch, F.J.
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Publikationen aller ICGEM-unterstützten Projekte, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;

Wagner, C.A.
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Publikationen aller ICGEM-unterstützten Projekte, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;

Richardson, J.A.
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Publikationen aller ICGEM-unterstützten Projekte, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;

Brownd, J.E.
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Publikationen aller ICGEM-unterstützten Projekte, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;

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Lerch, F., Wagner, C., Richardson, J., Brownd, J. (1974): Goddard Earth Models (5 and 6), (NASA Technical Reports), Greenbelt, Md : GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt/Maryland, 100, A1-B29 p.

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Abstract

A comprehensive earth model has been developed that consists of two complementary gravitational fields and center-of-mass locations for 134 tracking stations on the earth's surface. One gravitational field is derived solely from satellite tracking data. This data on 27 satellite orbits is the most extensive used for such a solution. A second solution uses this data with 13,400 simultaneous events from satellite camera observations and surface gravimetric anomalies. The satellite-only solution as a whole is accurate to about 4.5 milligals as judged by the surface gravity data. The majority of the station coordinates are accurate to better than 10 meters as judged by independent results from geodetic surveys and by Doppler tracking of both distant space probes and near earth orbits.