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The global, fast, and precise monitoring of the sea surface by satellite altimetry has become one of the most important sources for an improved estimate of a high resolving geoid. Thereby, increased data accuracy requires a more sophisticated modeling: the deviations between sea surface and the geoid, the sea surface topography, must be taken into account. Other existing surface data like terrestrial gravity anomalies are to be included and the estimate is to be stabilized by long wavelength geoid features, derived from satellite-only gravity field modeling.
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Bosch, W., Gruber, T. (1991). Altimetry Based Geoid Determination at the German Processing and Archiving Facility within the ERS-1 Project. In: Rapp, R.H., Sansò, F. (eds) Determination of the Geoid. International Association of Geodesy Symposia, vol 106. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3104-2_10
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