The Earth's gravity field from the STEP mission
- authored by
- N. Sneeuw, R. Rummel, J. Müller
- Abstract
The geodesy experiment on STEP aims at the precise and detailed determination of the spatial variations of the Earth's gravitational field by measuring the cross-track gradient along the orbit. If the envisaged gradiometer precision of 10-4 E Hz-1/2 can be reached and all other potential error sources, such as alignment, pointing and time-varying eigengravitation can be kept below this limit, a spatial resolution of about 100 km half-wavelength will be attained with a cumulative geoid error of below 2 cm (except in the polar areas).
- External Organisation(s)
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Technical University of Munich (TUM)
- Type
- Article
- Journal
- Classical and quantum gravity
- Volume
- 13
- Pages
- A113-A117
- ISSN
- 0264-9381
- Publication date
- 01.11.1996
- Publication status
- Published
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
- Electronic version(s)
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https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/13/11A/015 (Access:
Unknown)
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