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Determination of crustal motions using satellite laser ranging
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Copyright Year | 1991 |
| Description | Satellite laser ranging has matured over the last decade into one of the essential space geodesy techniques. It has demonstrated centimeter site positioning and millimeter per year velocity determinations in a frame tied dynamically to the mass center of the solid Earth hydrosphere atmosphere system. Such a coordinate system is a requirement for studying long term eustatic sea level rise and other global change phenomena. Earth orientation parameters determined with the coordinate system have been produced in near real time operationally since 1983, at a relatively modest cost. The SLR ranging to Lageos has also provided a rich spectrum of results based upon the analysis of Lageos orbital dynamics. These include significant improvements in the knowledge of the mean and variable components of the Earth's gravity field and the Earth's gravitational parameter. The ability to measure the time variations of the Earth's gravity field has opened as exciting area of study in relating global processes, including meteorologically derived mass transport through changes in the satellite dynamics. New confirmation of general relativity was obtained using the Lageos SLR data. |
| File Size | 2169253 |
| Page Count | 55 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19920014297 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t2j72c19t |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1991-12-31 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Geophysics Positioning Earth Gravitation Satellite Instruments Geodesy Earth Movements Gravitational Fields Sea Level Mass Transfer Rangefinding Real Time Operation Earth Crust Center of Mass Millimeter Waves Earth Hydrosphere Geodynamics Earth Orientation Laser Range Finders Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |