With a completely new generation of low-orbiting satellites, equipped with highly precise inter-satellite and accelerometry-instrumentation observing the Earth gravitational field and its temporal variability, space geodesy has entered the 21 century. Section 1.2 had a leading role in setting up th ...
EIGEN-CHAMP03S is a CHAMP-only gravity field model derived from CHAMP GPS satellite-to-satellite and accelerometer data out of the period October 2000 through June 2003. EIGEN-CHAMP03S is the final version of the preliminary model EIGEN-3p and results from a homogeneous reprocessing of all normal e ...