Impact of covariance information of kinematic positions on orbit reconstruction and gravity field recovery

Details Impact of covariance information of kinematic positions on orbit reconstruction and gravity field recovery Impact of covariance information of kinematic positions on orbit reconstruction and gravity field recovery

May 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011adspr..47.1472j&link_type=abstract

Advances in Space Research, Volume 47, Issue 9, p. 1472-1479.

Physics

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Gravity missions are equipped with onboard Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers for precise orbit determination (POD) and for the extraction of the long wavelength part of the Earth’s gravity field. As positions of low Earth orbiters (LEOs) may be determined from GPS measurements at each observation epoch by geometric means only, it is attractive to derive such kinematic positions in a first step and to use them in a second step as pseudo-observations for gravity field determination. The drawback of not directly using the original GPS measurements is, however, that kinematic positions are correlated due to the ambiguities in the GPS carrier phase observations, which in principle requires covariance information be taken into account. We use GRACE data to show that dynamic or reduced-dynamic orbit parameters are not optimally reconstructed from kinematic positions when only taking epoch-wise covariance information into account, but that essentially the same orbit quality can be achieved as when directly using the GPS measurements, if correlations in time are taken into account over sufficiently long intervals. For orbit reconstruction covariances have to be considered up to one revolution period to avoid ambiguity-induced variations of kinematic positions being erroneously interpreted as orbital variations. For gravity field recovery the advantage is, however, not very pronounced.

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