Statistics – Applications
Scientific paper
Dec 1990
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990jgr....9522043m&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 95, Dec. 10, 1990, p. 22043-22071. Previously announced in STAR as N90-12
Statistics
Applications
93
Geopotential, Gravimetry, Gravitational Fields, Models, Orbit Calculation, Satellite Orbits, Satellite Tracking, Coefficients, Earth Gravitation, Geoids, Root-Mean-Square Errors, Tides, Topex, Weighting Functions
Scientific paper
The GEM-T2 is the latest in a series of Goddard Earth Models of the terrestrial field. It was designed to bring modeling capabilities one step closer towards ultimately determining the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite's radial position to an accuracy of 10-cm RMS (root mean square). It also improves models of the long wavelength geoid to support many oceanographic and geophysical applications. The GEM-T2 extends the spherical harmonic field to include more than 600 coefficients above degree 36 (which was the limit for its predecessor, GEM-T1). Like GEM-T1, it was produced entirely from satellite tracking data, but it now uses nearly twice as many satellites (31 vs. 17), contains four times the number of observations (2.4 million), has twice the number of data arcs (1132), and utilizes precise laser tracking from 11 satellites. The estimation technique for the solution has been augmented to include an optimum data weighting procedure with automatic error calibration for the gravitational parameters. Results for the GEM-T2 error calibration indicate significant improvement over previous satellite-only models. The error of commission in determining the geoid has been reduced from 155 cm in GEM-T1 to 105 cm for GEM-T2 for the 36 x 36 portion of the field, and 141 cm for the entire model. The orbital accuracies achieved using GEM-T2 are likewise improved. Also, the projected radial error on the TOPEX satellite orbit indicates 9.4 cm RMS for GEM-T2, compared to 24.1 cm for GEM-T1.
Felsentreger Theodore L.
Lerch F. J.
Marsh James G.
Putney B. H.
Sanchez Braulio V.
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