the dedicated satellite mission goce will sense various small mass variations along its path around the earth. here we study the effect of the earth’s topography and atmosphere on goce data. the effects depend on the magnitude of topographic height, and they will therefore vary by region. as the effect of the atmosphere and topography must be removed from the total gravity anomaly prior to geoi...

After the successful European gravity mission GOCE (Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer), which provided an unprecedented high resolution static global map of the Earth's gravity field, the European Space Agency has proposed several preparatory studies for a Next Generation Gravity Mission. The NGGM mission objective aims at measuring the temporal variations of the Earth g...

Several global geopotential models based on Gravity eld and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) data have been published in the last two years. Some of these models use combinations of different satellite missions, while others use only GOCE data. This paper presents the evaluation and analysis of each approach using GOCE data in the Southeast of Brazil. Two assessments have beenmade...

The satellite gravity mission GOCE measured the second-order derivatives of the Earth’s gravitational potential with high accuracy. The GOCE data enrich our gravity field knowledge especially at spatial resolutions from 750km down to 80km. In this paper we carry out regional gravity field analysis using radial localising basis functions that permit the combination of different data types tailor...

The purpose of quick-look analysis in the framework of the GOCE data processing architecture is to analyse partial data sets of satellite gravity gradiometry (SGG) and satellite-to-satellite tracking in high-low mode (hl-SST), in order to derive a diagnosis of the system performance. The semi-analytic (SA) method for gravity field recovery from GOCE observations, which is based on Fast Fourier ...

The determination of the crustal structure is essential in geophysics, as it gives insight into the geohistory, tectonic environment, geohazard mitigation, etc. Here we present the latest advance on three-dimensional modeling representing the Tibetan Mohorovičić discontinuity (topography and ranges) and its deformation (fold), revealed by analyzing gravity data from GOCE mission. Our study show...

GOCE will be the first satellite ever to measure the second order derivatives of the Earth’s gravitational potential in space. With these measurements it is possible to derive a high accuracy and resolution gravitational field if systematic errors and/or outliers have been removed to the extent possible from the data. It is necessary to detect as many outliers as possible in the data pre-proces...

The uppermost masses of the lithosphere notably the land topography, bathymetry and ice make a significant contribution to the gravity signal captured by ESA’s GOCE gravity mission [1,2]. This circumstance is used 1) to evaluate ESA GOCE gravity field models of all generations, 2) to evaluate various topographic data sets and 3) to compute a global Bouguer gravity anomaly map. All of the above ...