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Improved ground truth geoid for the GEOS-3 calibration area

Author
Kuhner, M.
Published
Nov 1, 1977.
Physical Description
1 electronic document
Additional Creators
Fubara, D. M., Mourad, A. G., and Gopalapillai, S.
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Summary
The purpose of this investigation is to develop methods and procedures are reported for computing a detailed geoid to be used as geodetic ground truth for the calibration and verification of GEOS-3 altimeter data. The technique developed is based on rectifying the best available detailed geoid so that the rectified geoid will have correct scale, orientation, shape and position with respect to the geocenter. The approach involved the development of a mathematical model based on a second degree polynomial, in rectangular Cartesian coordinates, describing the geoid undulations at the control stations. A generalized least squares solution was obtained for the polynomial which describes the variation of the undulation differences between the control stations geoid and the gravimetric geoid. Three rectified geoid were determined. These geoids correspond to three sets of tracking station data: (1) WFC/C-band data; (2) GSFC/C-band data; and (3) OSU-275 data. The absolute accuracy of these rectified geoids is linearly correlated with the uncertainties of the tracking station coordinates and, to a certain extent, with those of the detailed geoid being rectified.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
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Document ID: 19780004567.
Accession ID: 78N12510.
NASA-CR-141431.
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