An improved error assessment for the GEM-T1 gravitational model

Details An improved error assessment for the GEM-T1 gravitational model An improved error assessment for the GEM-T1 gravitational model

Nov 1988

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Mathematics

Calibrating, Error Analysis, Gravitational Fields, Gravity Anomalies, Mathematical Models, Satellite Altimetry, Eigenvalues, Eigenvectors, Geodesy, Least Squares Method, Weighting Functions

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Several tests were designed to determine the correct error variances for the Goddard Earth Model (GEM)-T1 gravitational solution which was derived exclusively from satellite tracking data. The basic method employs both wholly independent and dependent subset data solutions and produces a full field coefficient estimate of the model uncertainties. The GEM-T1 errors were further analyzed using a method based upon eigenvalue-eigenvector analysis which calibrates the entire covariance matrix. Dependent satellite and independent altimetric and surface gravity data sets, as well as independent satellite deep resonance information, confirm essentially the same error assessment. These calibrations (utilizing each of the major data subsets within the solution) yield very stable calibration factors which vary by approximately 10 percent over the range of tests employed. Measurements of gravity anomalies obtained from altimetry were also used directly as observations to show that GEM-T1 is calibrated. The mathematical representation of the covariance error in the presence of unmodeled systematic error effects in the data is analyzed and an optimum weighting technique is developed for these conditions. This technique yields an internal self-calibration of the error model, a process which GEM-T1 is shown to approximate.

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