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<p>The ESA GOCE satellite carried a gravity gradiometer consisting of three pairs of accelerometers on mutually orthogonal axes. For each accelerometer, bias and scale factors have been re-estimated by a dynamic precise orbit determination (POD) using improved gravity field modeling and standards. The kinematic orbit solution included in GPS-based Precise Science Orbit (PSO) product served as the baseline observables for 1210 daily arcs, covering the period from 1 November 2009 to 20 October 2013. Implementing improved force models almost completely resolved the deviations of the <i>Y</i>-axis scale factor obtained in earlier work (Visser and Ijssel <CitationRef CitationID="CR31">2016</CitationRef>). A novel aspect is the verification by comparison with dynamic POD solutions based on SLR observations using 51 two-day orbital arcs. A high level of consistency was obtained between the kinematic PSO- and SLR-based accelerometer calibration parameters, e.g. within 0.01 nm/s<InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">\(^{ 2}\)</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"><math> <mmultiscripts> <mrow /> <mrow /> <mn>2</mn> </mmultiscripts> </math></EquationSource> </InlineEquation> for the <i>X</i>-axis pointing predominantly in the flight direction in terms of bias. One set of accelerometer scale factors was estimated for the entire mission. These were found to be consistent to within 0.005 for all accelerometer axes. The three-dimensional consistency between the dynamic orbits and the PSO reduced-dynamic orbit solutions has a mean Root-Mean-Square (RMS) of 4.5 and 10&#xa0;cm, respectively, for the PSO reduced-dynamic and SLR-based dynamic orbit solutions. In addition, the one-dimensional RMS-of-fit of the PSO kinematic orbit solution improved significantly from 6.9 in Visser and Ijssel (<CitationRef CitationID="CR31">2016</CitationRef>) to 2.6 cm.</p>

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Calibration of the GOCE accelerometers by GPS- and SLR-based precise orbit determination

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    2026年3月11日

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  • P. N. A. M. Visser,
  • J. A. A. van den IJssel,
  • C. Siemes

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The ESA GOCE satellite carried a gravity gradiometer consisting of three pairs of accelerometers on mutually orthogonal axes. For each accelerometer, bias and scale factors have been re-estimated by a dynamic precise orbit determination (POD) using improved gravity field modeling and standards. The kinematic orbit solution included in GPS-based Precise Science Orbit (PSO) product served as the baseline observables for 1210 daily arcs, covering the period from 1 November 2009 to 20 October 2013. Implementing improved force models almost completely resolved the deviations of the Y-axis scale factor obtained in earlier work (Visser and Ijssel 2016). A novel aspect is the verification by comparison with dynamic POD solutions based on SLR observations using 51 two-day orbital arcs. A high level of consistency was obtained between the kinematic PSO- and SLR-based accelerometer calibration parameters, e.g. within 0.01 nm/s \(^{ 2}\) 2 for the X-axis pointing predominantly in the flight direction in terms of bias. One set of accelerometer scale factors was estimated for the entire mission. These were found to be consistent to within 0.005 for all accelerometer axes. The three-dimensional consistency between the dynamic orbits and the PSO reduced-dynamic orbit solutions has a mean Root-Mean-Square (RMS) of 4.5 and 10 cm, respectively, for the PSO reduced-dynamic and SLR-based dynamic orbit solutions. In addition, the one-dimensional RMS-of-fit of the PSO kinematic orbit solution improved significantly from 6.9 in Visser and Ijssel (2016) to 2.6 cm.