GRACETOOLS
GRACE gravity field recovery tools
- authored by
- Neda Darbeheshti, Florian Wöske, Matthias Weigelt, Christopher McCullough, Hu Wu
- Abstract
This paper introduces GRACETOOLS, the first open source gravity field recovery tool using GRACE type satellite observations. Our aim is to initiate an open source GRACE data analysis platform, where the existing algorithms and codes for working with GRACE data are shared and improved. We describe the first release of GRACETOOLS that includes solving variational equations for gravity field recovery using GRACE range rate observations. All mathematical models are presented in a matrix format, with emphasis on state transition matrix, followed by details of the batch least squares algorithm. At the end, we demonstrate how GRACETOOLS works with simulated GRACE type observations. The first release of GRACETOOLS consist of all MATLAB M-files and is publicly available at Supplementary Materials.
- Organisation(s)
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Institute of Geodesy
- External Organisation(s)
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University of Bremen
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
California Institute of Caltech (Caltech)
- Type
- Article
- Journal
- Geosciences (Switzerland)
- Volume
- 8
- No. of pages
- 16
- Publication date
- 15.09.2018
- Publication status
- Published
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Electronic version(s)
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https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences8090350 (Access:
Open)
