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    Satellitengravimetrie

    In der zweiten Hälfte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts hatte sich der Forschungsbereich der Geodäsie als der Wissenschaft von der Ausmessung und Abbildung der Erde auf dramatische Art und Weise verändert. Dies wur...

    K. H. Ilk in Handbuch der Geodäsie

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    Pure Geometrical Precise Orbit Determination of a LEO Based on GNSS Carrier Phase Observations

    The interest in a precise orbit determination of Low Earth Orbiters (LEOs) especially in pure geometrical mode using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) observations has been rapidly grown. Conventional ...

    A. Shabanloui, K. H. Ilk in Geodesy for Planet Earth (2012)

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    A New Approach for Pure Kinematical and Reduced-Kinematical Determination of LEO Orbit Based on GNSS Observations

    The geometrical point-wise satellite positions of a Low Earth Orbiter (LEO) equipped with a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver can be derived by GNSS analysis techniques based on hl-SST (high-l...

    A. Shabanloui, K. H. Ilk in Geodesy for Planet Earth (2012)

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    Understanding a dynamic planet: Earth science requirements for geodesy

    The complexity of the Earth system has been discussed in many fundamental documents in recent years. Trying to understand the Earth system and improve our forecast capability step by step are the great challen...

    R. Rummel, G. Beutler, V. Dehant, R. Gross, K.H. Ilk in Global Geodetic Observing System (2009)

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    Far-zone effects for different topographic-compensation models based on a spherical harmonic expansion of the topography

    The determination of the gravimetric geoid is based on the magnitude of gravity observed at the surface of the Earth or at airborne altitude. To apply the Stokes’s or Hotine’s formulae at the geoid, the potent...

    A. A. Makhloof, K. H. Ilk in Journal of Geodesy (2008)

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    A Validation Procedure for Satellite Orbits and Force Function Models Based on a New Balance Equation Approach

    Since the availability of CHAMP and GRACE data, the energy approach has become an important tool for the recovery of the gravity field based on continuously observed satellite orbits. Up to now, only the total...

    A. Löcher, K. H. Ilk in Dynamic Planet (2007)

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    Global gravity field recovery by merging regional focusing patches: an integrated approach

    Usually the gravity potential is modelled by a spherical harmonic expansion. Simulation tests and real-data investigations based on POD (precise orbit determination) and SST (satellite-to-satellite tracking) d...

    K. H. Ilk, A. Eicker, T. Mayer-Gürr in Dynamic Planet (2007)

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    ITG-CHAMP01: a CHAMP gravity field model from short kinematic arcs over a one-year observation period

    Global gravity field models have been determined based on kinematic orbits covering an observation period of one year beginning from March 2002. Three different models have been derived up to a maximum degree of

    T. Mayer-Gürr, K.H. Ilk, A. Eicker, M. Feuchtinger in Journal of Geodesy (2005)

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    The Use of Energy Balance Relations for Validation of Gravity Field Models and Orbit Determination Results

    There is a need for a proper validation procedure of gravity field solutions, especially for those high precise ones which are derived from the dedicated gravity field missions as CHAMP, GRACE and in future GO...

    K.H. Ilk, A. Löcher in A Window on the Future of Geodesy (2005)

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    Gravity Field Recovery and Validation by Analysis of Short Arcs of a Satellite-to-Satellite Tracking Experiment as CHAMP and GRACE

    A procedure for gravity field determination is presented based on the analysis of short arcs of low flying satellites as CHAMP and GRACE. The analysis technique can be applied to high-low as well as to low-low...

    K.H. Ilk, M. Feuchtinger, T. Mayer-Gürr in A Window on the Future of Geodesy (2005)

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    Global Gravity Field Solutions Based on a Simulation Scenario of GRACE SST Data and Regional Refinements by GOCE SGG Observations

    GOCE (Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer) has the potential of deriving the global gravity field with unprecedented accuracy in the high resolution spectral part. The usual way is to mod...

    A. Eicker, T. Mayer-Guerr, K.H. Ilk in Gravity, Geoid and Space Missions (2005)

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    Envisaging a new era of gravity field research

    The investigation of the Earth’s gravity field will enter a new era at the turn of the forthcoming millenium. Despite the fact that a remarkable improvement of our knowledge of the gravity field has been achie...

    K. H. Ilk in Towards an Integrated Global Geodetic Observing System (IGGOS) (2000)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Application of Spherical Wavelets for Regional Gravity Field Recovery — A Comparative Study

    This paper is related to the application of spherical wavelets for gravity field recovery from SST/SGG-observations. The questions of geographical truncation and spatial resolution are studied, important for a...

    J. Kusche, K. H. Ilk, S. Rudolph, M. Thalhammer in Geodesy on the Move (1998)

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    Satellite gravity gradiometry: A future technique for global high resolution gravity field recovery

    One future possibility for obtaining improved high resolution gravity field information, besides the competitive technique of satellite-to-satellite tracking, is satellite gravity gradiometry. In this paper th...

    K. H. Ilk in Developments in Four-Dimensional Geodesy (1990)