Gravity field recovery from GOCE orbits using the energy conservation approach

Su Yong, Fan Dongming
2013 Geodesy and Geodynamics  
The sum of the dissipative energy and energy constant of the GOCE satellite is found by a priori gravity field model at first, and the GOCE dissipative energy is obtained by computing the adjacent epoch difference via the differential method. Then, a gravity field model GOCE-ECP01, which up to the degree and order 80 , is recovered by the energy conservation approach from the 103 -day precise orbital data of the GOCE satellite collected from November 1, 2009 to January 12, 2010. Finally, the
more » ... el is compared with existing models EGM96, ITG-CHAMP05S, EIGEN-GRACE2010S, EIGEN-6C and GO_CONS_GCF _2_DIR_R3. The results show that at the same order and degree, the accuracy of model GOCE-EBP01 is higher than those of models EGM96 and ITG-CHAMP05S, but lower than those of models EIGEN-GRACE2010S, EIGEN-6C and GO_CONS_GCF _2_DIR_R3, which is mainly caused by the pole gap.
doi:10.3724/sp.j.1246.2013.02040 fatcat:bskv3qyorbdqvjvtghosdh6i5a