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During the past years the European Space Agency (ESA) has worked on the definition of a comprehensive Earth observation satellite programme for the era after ENVISAT. This “ESA Living Planet” (1998) programme has recently been published. It distinguishes three types of missions: the research oriented medium scale explorer missions, the smaller opportunity missions, and the monitoring type Earth watch missions. In preparation of a pre-selection of the first explorer missions a meeting of the European Earth science community had been organized at Granada/Spain in May 1996. The Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) was one of nine candidates that were presented there. Following a recommendation of the Earth Science Advisory Committee of ESA four of the nine were selected for a phase-A study. They were: the gravity field and steady-state ocean circulation mission, an atmospheric dynamics mission, an Earth radiation experiment, and a land surface processes and interaction mission.
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Rummel, R., Müller, J., Oberndorfer, H., Sneeuw, N. (2000). Satellite Gravity Gradiometry with GOCE. In: Rummel, R., Drewes, H., Bosch, W., Hornik, H. (eds) Towards an Integrated Global Geodetic Observing System (IGGOS). International Association of Geodesy Symposia, vol 120. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59745-9_10
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