Investigation of tidal displacements of the Earth's surface by laser ranging to GEOS-3.

Author:: Bower, D. R.
Published:: Apr 1, 1980.
Physical Description:: 1 electronic document
Additional Creators:: Paul, M. K., Halpenny, J., and Lambert, A.

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An analysis of laser ranging data from three stations was carried out in an attempt to measure the geometric Earth tide. Two different approaches to the problem were investigated. The dynamic method computes pass to pass apparent movements in stations height relative to short arcs fitted to several passes of data from the same station by the program GEODYNE. The quasi-geometric method reduces the dependence on unmodelled satellite dynamics to a knowledge of only the radial position of the satellite by considering two station simultaneous ranging at the precise time that the satellite passes through the plane defined by two stations and the center of mass of the Earth.

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GEOPHYSICS

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Document ID: 19800015416.
Accession ID: 80N23908.
NASA-CR-156863.

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