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Earth orientation from Doppler tracking of the Navy navigation satellite system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

William H. Wooden
William H. Wooden*
Affiliation:
Defense Mapping Agency, Washington, DC 20305, USA

Abstract

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For more than a dozen years, Doppler tracking of the Navy Navigation Satellite System (NNSS) has demonstrated the ability to give solutions for polar motion as a byproduct of precise ephemerides generation. The polar motion estimation process at the Defense Mapping Agency is reviewed and comparisons of the Doppler results with the polar motion series of the newer observational techniques and the Bureau International de l'Heure (BIH) Circular-D are made. This paper extends the analyses and comparisons done during the MERIT Main Campaign for one additional Chandler period.

Type
III. Determination of Earth Rotation Parameters
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 128: Earth's Rotation and Reference Frames for Geodesy and Geodynamics , 1988 , pp. 199 - 207
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1988 

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