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23. Satellite Environmental Sensing

Authors : Joseph Awange, John Kiema

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GNSS satellites such as GPS are playing an increasingly crucial role in tracking low earth orbiting (LEO) remote sensing satellites at altitudes below 3000 km with accuracies of better than 10 cm (Yunck in IEEE Trans Geosci Remote Sens 28:108–116 1990, [2]). These remote sensing satellites employ a precise global network of GNSS, GRACE (Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment) and Altimetry ground receivers operating in concert with receivers onboard the LEO satellites, with all estimating the satellites’ orbits, GPS orbits, and selected ground locations simultaneously (Yunck in IEEE Trans Geosci Remote Sens 28:108–116 1990, [2]).

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Title: Satellite Environmental Sensing
Authors: Joseph Awange
John Kiema
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Environmental Geoinformatics
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-03016-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-03017-9

Copyright Year: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03017-9_23

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