The Earth's gravity field from the STEP mission
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).
Details
- 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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Details in the research portal "Research@Leibniz University"
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