ON THE DETERMINATION OF THE DEFLECTION OF THE VERTICAL BY SATELLITE ALTIMETRY

Journal article

With the advent of satellite altimetry it has become possible to estimate the height of the marine geoid above the ellipsoid to an accuracy of better than 1m. At a crossover of a satellite's ascending and descending tracks, altimeter data can be used to obtain two linearly independent estimates of the geoid's horizontal gradient. These two estimates determine the value of the deflection of the vertical at the crossover. We have used altimeter data obtained during the Seasat mission to estimate deflections in an area of the Pacific Ocean.-from Authors

Authors: Watts, A; Horai, K; Ribe, N

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: MARINE GEODESY
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 1-4
• Pages: 85-127
• Publication date: 1984-01-01
• ISSN: 0149-0419
• Language: English