Gravity field recovery from orbit information using the Lagrange formalism
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Gravity field reconstruction via the analysis of kinematic orbit positions has been proven to provide essential information for Earth system research purposes. For this aim, various approaches have been developed and applied to exploit kinematic orbits. In addition to those existing methods, in this paper we present a new technique. By means of a series of simulation studies we demonstrate that the novel method is comparable with the hitherto proposed techniques. As the main difference with existing methods, our approach is based on the so-called Lagrange coefficients, i.e., a semi-analytical description of the satellite motion. For this reason, we denote the technique to as the Lagrange formalism. The low sensitivity to the priori information about the gravity field, and less influence of the polar gap are of its characteristics. The investigations demonstrate that the idea of the Lagrange method in determining the Earth's gravity field could represent comparable results in term of quality with other approaches.
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Sharifi MA, Seif MR, Baur O, Sneeuw N. Gravity field recovery from orbit information using the Lagrange formalism. Ann. Geophys. [Internet]. 2017Sep.1 [cited 2021Sep.25];60(3):S0334. Available from: https://www.annalsofgeophysics.eu/index.php/annals/article/view/7204
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