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6 ITSG-Grace2016 41
6.1 Data Preprocessing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
6.2 Sensor Fusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
6.2.1 Parametrization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
6.2.2 Star Camera Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
6.2.3 Accelerometer Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
6.2.4 Combination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
6.3 Orbit Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
6.4 Functional Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
6.4.1 Force Model Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
6.4.2 Low-Low SST Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
6.4.3 Observation Equation System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
6.5 Fit of Stochastic Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
6.5.1 Toeplitz Covariance Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
6.5.2 Covariance Function and Power Spectral Density . . . . . . . . 63
6.5.3 Estimation of Covariance Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
6.5.4 Estimation of Arc-wise Variance Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
6.5.5 Geophysical Signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
6.5.6 Implementation Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
6.5.7 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
6.6 Complete solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
6.6.1 High Degree Monthly Gravity Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
6.6.2 Lower Degree Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
7 Numerical Optimization in Orbit Integration 79
7.1 Quality of Convergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
7.2 Improved Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
7.2.1 Reference Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
7.2.2 Parametrization of Reference Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
7.2.3 Determination of Best-Fit Orbit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
7.3 Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
7.3.1 Encke Ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
7.3.2 Convergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
7.3.3 Absolute Differences from Simulated Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
7.3.4 Application to real GRACE data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
7.3.5 Propagation to Ranging Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
7.4 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
8 Star Camera Observations and Uncertainties 99
8.1 The Antenna Offset Correction in the ll-SST Observation Equation . . 99
8.1.1 Uncertainties in Computing the Antenna Offset Correction . . 100
8.1.2 AOC Covariance From Sensor Fusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
8.2 Updated Stochastic Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
8.3 Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
8.3.1 AOC Variance Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
8.3.2 Arc-wise Variance Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
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Contributions to GRACE Gravity Field Recovery
Improvements in Dynamic Orbit Integration, Stochastic Modelling of the Antenna Offset Correction, and Co-Estimation of Satellite Orientations
- Title
- Contributions to GRACE Gravity Field Recovery
- Subtitle
- Improvements in Dynamic Orbit Integration, Stochastic Modelling of the Antenna Offset Correction, and Co-Estimation of Satellite Orientations
- Author
- Matthias Ellmerr
- Publisher
- Verlag der Technischen Universität Graz
- Location
- Graz
- Date
- 2018
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-85125-646-8
- Size
- 21.0 x 29.7 cm
- Pages
- 185
- Keywords
- Geodäsie, Gravitation, Geodesy, Physics, Physik
- Categories
- Naturwissenschaften Physik
- Technik