Theory of satellite geodesy and gravity field determination: coll. of the lectures notes of an Intern. summer school of theoretical geodesy held in Assisi (Italy) from May 23 to June 3, 1988

Introduction....Pages 1-5 Introduction to classical mechanics....Pages 9-68 Lectures in celestial mechanics....Pages 69-114 Four lectures on special and general relativity....Pages 115-151 Reference coordinate systems: An update....Pages 153-196 Gravity field recovery from satellite tracking data....Pages 197-234 Fundamentals of orbit determination....Pages 235-260 Combination of Satellite, Altimetric and Terrestrial Gravity Data....Pages 261-284 Summer school lectures on satellite altimetry....Pages 285-334 Advanced techniques for high-resolution mapping of the gravitational field....Pages 335-369 The integrated approach to satellite geodesy....Pages 373-416 Determination of a local geodetic network by multi-arc processing of satellite laser ranges....Pages 417-445 Boundary value problems and invariants of the gravitational tensor in satellite gradiometry....Pages 447-457 A possible application of the space VLBI observations for establishment of a new connection of reference frames....Pages 459-475 Optimization of the reordering algorithm for least squares problems relevant to space geodesy....Pages 477-491