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Geodetic VLBI for precise orbit determination of Earth satellites: a simulation study / Grzegorz Klopotek in Journal of geodesy, vol 94 n° 6 (June 2020)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 94 n° 6 (June 2020) Titre : Geodetic VLBI for precise orbit determination of Earth satellites: a simulation study Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Grzegorz Klopotek, Auteur ; Thomas Hobiger, Auteur ; Rüdiger Haas, Auteur ; Toshimichi Otsubo, Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes descripteurs IGN] constellation GNSS [Termes descripteurs IGN] données Galileo [Termes descripteurs IGN] données Lageos [Termes descripteurs IGN] données VGOS [Termes descripteurs IGN] géocentre [Termes descripteurs IGN] interférométrie à très grande base [Termes descripteurs IGN] méthode de Monte-Carlo [Termes descripteurs IGN] orbitographie [Termes descripteurs IGN] paramètres d'orientation de la Terre [Termes descripteurs IGN] quasar [Termes descripteurs IGN] rotation de la Terre Résumé : (auteur) Recent efforts of tracking low Earth orbit and medium Earth orbit (MEO) satellites using geodetic very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) raise questions on the potential of this novel observation concept for space geodesy. Therefore, we carry out extensive Monte Carlo simulations in order to investigate the feasibility of geodetic VLBI for precise orbit determination (POD) of MEO satellites and assess the impact of quality and quantity of satellite observations on the derived geodetic parameters. The MEO satellites are represented in our study by LAGEOS-1/-2 and a set of Galileo satellites. The concept is studied on the basis of 3-day solutions in which satellite observations are included into real schedules of the continuous geodetic VLBI campaign 2017 (CONT17) as well as simulated schedules concerning the next-generation VLBI system, known as the VLBI Global Observing System (VGOS). Our results indicate that geodetic VLBI can perform on a comparable level as other space-geodetic techniques concerning POD of MEO satellites. For an assumed satellite observation precision better than 14.1 mm (47 ps), an average 3D orbit precision of 2.0 cm and 6.3 cm is found for schedules including LAGEOS-1/-2 and Galileo satellites, respectively. Moreover, geocenter offsets, which were so far out of scope for the geodetic VLBI analysis, are close to the detection limit for the simulations concerning VGOS observations of Galileo satellites, with the potential to further enhance the results. Concerning the estimated satellite orbits, VGOS leads to an average precision improvement of 80% with respect to legacy VLBI. In absolute terms and for satellite observation precision of 14.1 mm (47 ps), this corresponds to an average value of 17 mm and 7 mm concerning the 3D orbit scatter and precision of geocenter components, respectively. As shown in this study, a poor satellite geometry can degrade the derived Earth rotation parameters and VLBI station positions, compared to the quasar-only reference schedules. Therefore, careful scheduling of both quasar and satellite observations should be performed in order to fully benefit from this novel observation concept. Numéro de notice : A2020-342 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-020-01381-9 date de publication en ligne : 11/06/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-020-01381-9 Format de la ressource électronique : url article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=95221 [article]

Smoothing and predicting celestial pole offsets using a Kalman filter and smoother / Jolanta Nastula in Journal of geodesy, Vol 94 n°3 (March 2020)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > Vol 94 n°3 (March 2020) Titre : Smoothing and predicting celestial pole offsets using a Kalman filter and smoother Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Jolanta Nastula, Auteur ; T. Mike Chin,, Auteur ; Richard S. Gross, Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie physique [Termes descripteurs IGN] filtre de Kalman [Termes descripteurs IGN] International Earth Rotation Service [Termes descripteurs IGN] lissage de données [Termes descripteurs IGN] mission spatiale [Termes descripteurs IGN] mouvement du pôle [Termes descripteurs IGN] nutation [Termes descripteurs IGN] orientation de la Terre [Termes descripteurs IGN] précession [Termes descripteurs IGN] radar JPL [Termes descripteurs IGN] rotation de la Terre [Termes descripteurs IGN] série temporelle Résumé : (auteur) It has been recognized since the early days of interplanetary spaceflight that accurate navigation requires taking into account changes in the Earth’s rotation. In the 1960s, tracking anomalies during the Ranger VII and VIII lunar missions were traced to errors in the Earth orientation parameters. As a result, Earth orientation calibration methods were improved to support the Mariner IV and V planetary missions. Today, accurate Earth orientation parameters are used to track and navigate every interplanetary spaceflight mission. The approach taken at JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) to provide the interplanetary spacecraft tracking and navigation teams with the UT1 and polar motion parameters that they need is based upon the use of a Kalman filter to combine past measurements of these parameters and predict their future evolution. A model was then used to provide the nutation/precession components of the Earth’s orientation. As a result, variations caused by the free core nutation were not taken into account. But for the highest accuracy, these variations must be considered. So JPL recently developed an approach based upon the use of a Kalman filter and smoother to provide smoothed and predicted celestial pole offsets (CPOs) to the interplanetary spacecraft tracking and navigation teams. The approach used at JPL to do this and an evaluation of the accuracy of the predicted CPOs is given here. For assessing the quality of JPL’s nutation predictions, we compare the time series of dX, dY provided by JPL with the predictions obtained from the IERS Rapid Service/Prediction Centre. Our results confirmed that the approach recently developed by JPL can be used for the successful nutation prediction. In particular, we show that after 90 days of prediction, the estimated errors are 43% lower for dX and 33% lower for dY than in the case of the official IERS products, and an average improvement is 19% and 22% for dX and dY, respectively. Numéro de notice : A2020-156 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-020-01349-9 date de publication en ligne : 15/02/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-020-01349-9 Format de la ressource électronique : url article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=94806 [article]

Impact of network constraining on the terrestrial reference frame realization based on SLR observations to LAGEOS / R. Zajdel in Journal of geodesy, vol 93 n°11 (November 2019)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 93 n°11 (November 2019) Titre : Impact of network constraining on the terrestrial reference frame realization based on SLR observations to LAGEOS Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : R. Zajdel, Auteur ; Krzysztof Sosnica, Auteur ; M. Drożdżewski, Auteur ; Grzegorz Bury, Auteur ; D. Strugarek, Auteur Année de publication : 2019 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes descripteurs IGN] géocentre [Termes descripteurs IGN] International Terrestrial Reference Frame [Termes descripteurs IGN] Lageos [Termes descripteurs IGN] réseau de contraintes [Termes descripteurs IGN] rotation de la Terre [Termes descripteurs IGN] station TLS (télémétrie) [Termes descripteurs IGN] système de référence géodésique [Termes descripteurs IGN] système de référence local [Termes descripteurs IGN] télémétrie laser sur satellite [Termes descripteurs IGN] transformation de Helmert Résumé : (auteur) The Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) network struggles with some major limitations including an inhomogeneous global station distribution and uneven performance of SLR sites. The International Laser Ranging Service (ILRS) prepares the time-variable list of the most well-performing stations denoted as ‘core sites’ and recommends using them for the terrestrial reference frame (TRF) datum realization in SLR processing. Here, we check how different approaches of the TRF datum realization using minimum constraint conditions (MCs) and the selection of datum-defining stations affect the estimated SLR station coordinates, the terrestrial scale, Earth rotation parameters (ERPs), and geocenter coordinates (GCC). The analyses are based on the processing of the SLR observations to LAGEOS-1/-2 collected between 2010 and 2018. We show that it is essential to reject outlying stations from the reference frame realization to maintain a high quality of SLR-based products. We test station selection criteria based on the Helmert transformation of the network w.r.t. the a priori SLRF2014 coordinates to reject misbehaving stations from the list of datum-defining stations. The 25 mm threshold is optimal to eliminate the epoch-wise temporal deviations and to provide a proper number of datum-defining stations. According to the station selection algorithm, we found that some of the stations that are not included in the list of ILRS core sites could be taken into account as potential core stations in the TRF datum realization. When using a robust station selection for the datum definition, we can improve the station coordinate repeatability by 8%, 4%, and 6%, for the North, East and Up components, respectively. The global distribution of datum-defining stations is also crucial for the estimation of ERPs and GCC. When excluding just two core stations from the SLR network, the amplitude of the annual signal in the GCC estimates is changed by up to 2.2 mm, and the noise of the estimated pole coordinates is substantially increased. Numéro de notice : A2019-610 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-019-01307-0 date de publication en ligne : 17/10/2019 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-019-01307-0 Format de la ressource électronique : url article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=94794 [article]

Lunar Laser Ranging: a tool for general relativity, lunar geophysics and Earth science / Jurgen Müller in Journal of geodesy, vol 93 n°11 (November 2019)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 93 n°11 (November 2019) Titre : Lunar Laser Ranging: a tool for general relativity, lunar geophysics and Earth science Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Jurgen Müller, Auteur ; Thomas W. Murphy Jr, Auteur ; Ulrich Schreiber, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2019 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie physique [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes descripteurs IGN] géophysique [Termes descripteurs IGN] Lune [Termes descripteurs IGN] paramètres d'orientation de la Terre [Termes descripteurs IGN] principe d'équivalence [Termes descripteurs IGN] relativité générale [Termes descripteurs IGN] repère de référence [Termes descripteurs IGN] rétroréflecteur [Termes descripteurs IGN] sciences de la Terre et de l'univers [Termes descripteurs IGN] signal laser [Termes descripteurs IGN] télémétrie laser sur la Lune Résumé : (auteur) Only a few sites on Earth are technically equipped to carry out Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) to retroreflector arrays on the surface of the Moon. Despite the weak signal, they have successfully provided LLR range data for about 49 years, generating about 26,000 normal points. Recent system upgrades and new observatories have made millimeter-level range accuracy achievable. Based on appropriate modeling and sophisticated data analysis, LLR is able to determine many parameters associated with Earth–Moon dynamics, involving the lunar ephemeris, lunar physics, the Moon’s interior, reference frames and Earth orientation parameters. LLR has also become one of the strongest tools for testing Einstein’s theory of general relativity in the solar system. By extending the standard solution, it is possible to solve for parameters related to gravitational physics, like the temporal variation of the gravitational constant, metric parameters as well as the strong equivalence principle, preferred-frame effects and standard-model extensions. This paper provides a review about LLR measurement and analysis. After a short historical overview, we describe the key findings of LLR, the apparatus and technologies involved, the requisite modeling techniques, some recent results and future prospects on all fronts. We expect continued improvements in LLR, maintaining its lead in contributing to science. Numéro de notice : A2019-611 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-019-01296-0 date de publication en ligne : 17/09/2019 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-019-01296-0 Format de la ressource électronique : url article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=94799 [article]

A generalized theory of the figure of the Earth : on the global dynamical flattening / Chenjun Liu in Journal of geodesy, vol 93 n° 3 (March 2019)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 93 n° 3 (March 2019) . - pp 319 - 331 Titre : A generalized theory of the figure of the Earth : on the global dynamical flattening Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Chenjun Liu, Auteur ; Chengli Huang, Auteur ; Yu Liu, Auteur ; Mian Zhang, Auteur Année de publication : 2019 Article en page(s) : pp 319 - 331 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie [Termes descripteurs IGN] aplatissement [Termes descripteurs IGN] croute terrestre [Termes descripteurs IGN] isostasie [Termes descripteurs IGN] manteau terrestre [Termes descripteurs IGN] moment d'inertie [Termes descripteurs IGN] noyau terrestre [Termes descripteurs IGN] rotation de la Terre Résumé : (Auteur) A generalized theory of the figures of the Earth’s interior to a third-order precision of ellipticity is proposed in accompanying paper in which all the odd degree and nonzero order spherical harmonic terms are included. As both the direct and indirect contributions of the asymmetric crust are included, this theory makes a significant improvement for calculating the asymmetric equilibrium figures of the real Earth comparing with the traditional theories which can only deal with the ideal symmetric Earth. The principal moments of inertia (PMOI: A, B, C) and global dynamical flattening (H) are important quantities in studying the rotating Earth. Precession and gravity observations give observation value of H (Hobs≈1/305.4559) with very high precision, while its theoretical calculated value (Htheory≈1/308.5) from traditional theories and a starting symmetric Earth model (like PREM model) is about 1% less than Hobs. Using the new theory in accompanying paper and replacing the homogeneous outermost crust and oceanic layers in PREM with CRUST1.0 model, we recalculate the equilibrium figures of the Earth’s interior and finally get new values of PMOI and Htheory (≈1/304.7167) whose consistency with Hobs are significantly improved to 0.24%. Furthermore, the asymmetric figures of some interesting boundaries, like inner core boundary, core-mantle boundary, are also given as by-products of this work as these boundaries’ figures are key input for studies of their topographic effect on global rotation and geodynamics, like nutation, normal modes, especially like free core nutation. Numéro de notice : A2019-151 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-018-1163-x date de publication en ligne : 22/06/2018 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-018-1163-x Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=92490 [article]

Influence of subdaily model for polar motion on the estimated GPS satellite orbits / Natalia Panafidina in Journal of geodesy, vol 93 n° 2 (February 2019)  

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Consistent realization of celestial and terrestrial reference frames / Younghee Kwak in Journal of geodesy, vol 92 n° 9 (September 2018)  

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Future global SLR network evolution and its impact on the terrestrial reference frame / Alexander Kehm in Journal of geodesy, vol 92 n° 6 (June 2018)  

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Long-term prediction of polar motion using a combined SSA and ARMA model / Y. Shen in Journal of geodesy, vol 92 n° 3 (March 2018)  

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Dependency of geodynamic parameters on the GNSS constellation / Stefano Scaramuzza in Journal of geodesy, vol 92 n° 1 (January 2018)  

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Hydrological excitation of polar motion by different variables from the GLDAS models / Malgorzata Winska in Journal of geodesy, vol 91 n° 12 (December 2017)  

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Basic Earth's Parameters as estimated from VLBI observations / Ping Zhu in Geodesy and Geodynamics, vol 8 n° 6 (November 2017)  

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IGS polar motion measurement accuracy / Jim Ray in Geodesy and Geodynamics, vol 8 n° 6 (November 2017)    

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Analysis of decade-long time series of GPS-based polar motion estimates at 15-min temporal resolution / Aurore E. Sibois in Journal of geodesy, vol 91 n° 8 (August 2017)  

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A global terrestrial reference frame from simulated VLBI and SLR data in view of GGOS / Susanne Glaser in Journal of geodesy, vol 91 n° 7 (July 2017)  

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