Theory of Satellite Geodesy and Gravity Field Determination: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, cartea 25

to classical mechanics.- Lectures in celestial mechanics.- Four lectures on special and general relativity.- Reference coordinate systems: An update.- Gravity field recovery from satellite tracking data.- Fundamentals of orbit determination.- Combination of Satellite, Altimetric and Terrestrial Gravity Data.- Summer school lectures on satellite altimetry.- Advanced techniques for high-resolution mapping of the gravitational field.- The integrated approach to satellite geodesy.- Determination of a local geodetic network by multi-arc processing of satellite laser ranges.- Boundary value problems and invariants of the gravitational tensor in satellite gradiometry.- A possible application of the space VLBI observations for establishment of a new connection of reference frames.- Optimization of the reordering algorithm for least squares problems relevant to space geodesy.