From Mars to Greenland: Charting Gravity With Space and Airborne Instruments

This volume of the IAG-Symposia presents the results of a broad investigation by space and airborne methods using satellite measurements over Greenland. The different techniques as well as computational methods are described. For scientists dealing with satellite born data this work will provide important information.

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Preface.- Space Techniques I: Long Wavelengths.- Properties of the Gravity Fields of Terrestrial Planets.- Gravity Modeling of Mars and Venus at NASA/GSFC.- An Improved Model of the Earth's Gravity Field: GEM-T3.- Performance of Recent Gravity Field Models in Precision Orbit Determination Using Doppler Observations.- Gravity Field Estimation From Future Space Missions: Topex/Poseidon, Gravity Probe-B, and Aristoteles.- Integrated Laser Doppler Method for Measuring Planetary Gravity Fields.- Atmospheric Gravitational Influence on Geodetic Satellite Orbits: STARLETTE Analysis.- Observed Temporal Variations in the Earth's Gravity Field From 16-year STARLETTE Orbit Analysis.- Space Techniques II: High Resolution.- High Resolution Gravity Models Combining Terrestrial and Satellite Data.- Test Results of Analyzing Altimeter Data by a Quasigeostrophic Model of the Sea Surface Topography.- Sea Surface Height Modeling, Generation and Validation of Sample Products.- A Comparison Between Satellite Gravity Data (Geosat) and Marine Gravity Data Measured in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica.- Effect of Water Vapor Corrections for Satellite Altimeter Measurements of the Geoid.- Aristoteles.- Toward a Gradiometer Analytic Model.- A BVP Approach to the Reduction of Spaceborne Gradiometry: Theory and Simulations.- Results From the Simulations of Geopotential Coefficient Estimation From Gravity Gradients.- Laboratory Demonstrations of Superconducting Gravity and Inertial Sensors for Space and Airborne Gravity Measurements.- Airborne Techniques I: New Results.- The Greenland Aerogeophysics Project: Airborne Gravity, Topographic and Magnetic Mapping of an Entire Continent.- Airborne Gravity Measurements Over the Kelvin Seamount.- Airborne Gravity From a Light Aircraft.- Accuracy ofGPS-derived Acceleration From Moving Platform Tests.- Multiple Receiver, Zero-length Baseline Kinematic GPS Positioning Techniques for Airborne Gravity Measurement.- Airborne Techniques II: New Directions.- Airborne Gravimetry, Altimetry, and GPS Navigation Errors.- Requirements for Airborne Vector Gravimetry.- Airborne Vector Gravimetry With an Aided Inertial Survey System.- Controlling Common Mode Stabilization Errors in Airborne Gravity Gradiometry.- GPS/INS Gravity Measurements in Space and on a Balloon.- A BVP Approach to the Reduction of Spaceborne GPS and Accelerometric Observations.- Related Theory.- Walsh-Fourier Series Expansion of the Earth's Gravitational Potential.- Non-singular Cross-track Derivatives of the Gravitational Potential Using Rotated Spherical Harmonics.- Author Index.