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Technische Universität München
Technische Universität München

Ingenieurinstitut für Astronomische und Physikalische Geodäsie

Mass change in the Earth System

- water storage, sea level, ice sheets, crust-mantle dynamics, and others -

We started a survey on user requirements for future satellite gravity missions and would like users to participate

Abstract

Mass changes on and below the Earth surface, such as from water storage variations, groundwater use, glacier melt, sea level change, earthquakes, among many others, can be observed by satellite gravimetry. 

Since 2002, the GRACE and GRACE-FO satellite gravity missions have been observing changes in the Earth’s gravity field that can be converted to mass changes with an accuracy of 2 cm water equivalent at a spatial resolution of about 300km for monthly data. ESA and NASA are currently planning a double-pair satellite constellation MAGIC (envisaged time frame: 2028-2038), which promises an enhanced spatial and temporal resolution compared to GRACE/-FO. 

After that, e.g. 15 years into the future, the QSG4EMT (Quantum Space Gravimetry for monitoring Earth’s Mass Transport Processes) mission may provide even larger improvements in spatial and temporal resolution of mass change data, significantly expanding the potential range of applications. 

The purpose of this questionnaire is to compile user requirements for such novel mission concepts.

The survey will take approximately 15 minutes.

Das Ingenieurinstitut besteht aus:

Lehrstuhl für Astronomische und Physikalische Geodäsie

Univ.-Prof. Dr.techn. Mag.rer.nat. Roland Pail

Professur für Satellitengeodäsie

Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil.nat. Urs Hugentobler

aktuelle Publikationen

  • Lösler, M.; Lossin, T.; Neidhardt, A.; Lehmann, R.: Untersuchung zur automatisierten Bestimmung des IVS-Referenzpunktes am TWIN Radioteleskop Wettzell. HTW Dresden, QUCOSA, 2015, mehr… BibTeX
  • Schreiber, U.; Thirkettle, R.; Hurst, R.; Follman, D.; Cole, G.; Aspelmeyer, M.; Wells, J.: Sensing earth's rotation with a helium-neon ring laser operating at 1,15 Mikrometer. Optics Letters 40 (8), 2015 mehr… BibTeX
  • Schüler, T.; Kronschnabl, G.; Plötz, Ch.; Neidhardt, A.; Bertarini, A; Bernhart, S; la Porta, L; Halsig, S.; Nothnagel, A.: Initial Results Obtained with the First TWIN VLBI Radio Telescope at the Geodetic Observatory Wettzell. Sensors — Open Access Journal, 2015 mehr… BibTeX
  • McKenzie, D.; Yi, W.; Rummel, R.: Estimates of Te from PreCambrian Shields using GOCE gravity. Proc. '5th International GOCE User Workshop', Paris, France, 25-28 November 2014 (ESA SP-728), 2015 mehr… BibTeX
  • Auer, S.; Gernhardt, S.; Eder, K.; Gisinger, C.: Simulation of Facade Reference Data for 3D SAR Algorithms. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2015 IEEE International, IEEE, 2015 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Gisinger, C.; Gernhardt, S.; Auer, S.; Balss, U.; Hackel, S.; Pail, R.; Eineder, M.: Absolute 4-D Positioning of Persistent Scatterers with TerraSAR-X by applying Geodetic Stereo SAR. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2015 IEEE International, IEEE, 2015 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Abelen, S.; Seitz, F.; Abarca del Rio, R.; Güntner, A.: Droughts and floods in the La Plata basin in soil moisture data and GRACE. Remote Sensing 7, 2015, 7324-7349 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Tenzer, R.; Hirt, C.; Claessens, S.J.; Novák, P.: Spatial and spectral representations of the geoid-to-quasigeoid correction. Surveys in Geophysics 36 (5, 627-658), 2015 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Schüler, T.; Kronschnabl, G.; Neidhardt, A.; Plötz, Ch.; Bertarini, A.; La Porta, L.; Bernhart, S.; Müskens, A.; Halsig, S.; Nothnagel, A.: Results from the TWIN Commissioning Phase. Proceedings of the 22nd European VLBI Group for Geodesy and Astrometry Working Meeting, 2015 mehr… BibTeX
  • Neidhardt, A.; Lovell, J.; Kirschbauer, K.; Schönberger, M.; Himwich, E.; McCallum, J.; Plötz, Ch.; Quick, J.: Results from a test realization of a system monitoring for seamless auxiliary data. Proceedings of the 22nd European VLBI Group for Geodesy and Astrometry Working Meeting, 2015 mehr… BibTeX
  • Plötz, Ch.; Neidhardt, A.; Klügel, T.; Wojdziak, R.; Serna-Puente, J.; Vaquero-Jiménez, B.; Schüler, T.; VLBI Team, Wettzell; DFD Team, DLR: The German Antarctic Receiving Station O'Higgins - upgrades of the VLBI-capabilities for future challenges. Proceedings of the 22nd European VLBI Group for Geodesy and Astrometry Working Meeting, 2015 mehr… BibTeX
  • Lovell, J.; McCallum, J.; Plank, L.; Rastergueva-Foi, E.; Shabala, S.; Mayer, D.; Böhm, J.; Titov, O.; Quick, J.; Weston, S.; Gulyaev, S.; Natusch, T.; Reynolds, C.; Bignall, H.; Sun, J.; Neidhardt, A.: The southern hemisphere AUSTRAL program: A pathway to VGOS. Proceedings of the 22nd European VLBI Group for Geodesy and Astrometry Working Meeting, 2015 mehr… BibTeX
  • Hellerschmied, A.; Böhm, J.; Haas, R.; Kodet, J.; Neidhardt, A; Plank, L.: Scheduling of VLBI observations to satellites with the Vienna VLBI Software (VieVS). Proceedings of the 22nd European VLBI Group for Geodesy and Astrometry Working Meeting, 2015 mehr… BibTeX
  • Haas, R.; Hobiger, T.; Hellerschmied, A.; Neidhardt, A.; Kodet, J.: GLONASS-VLBI: Onsala-Wettzell test observations. Proceedings of the 22nd European VLBI Group for Geodesy and Astrometry Working Meeting, 2015 mehr… BibTeX
  • Huang, J.; Reguzzoni, M.; Gruber, Th.: Huang, J.; Reguzzoni, M.; Gruber, Th. (Hrsg.): Assessment of GOCE Geopotential Models. Newton's Bulletin. International Association of Geodesy and International Gravity Field Service, 2015 mehr… BibTeX
  • McKenzie, D.; Yi, W.; Rummel, R.: Estimates of Te for continental regions using GOCE gravity. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 428, 2015, 97-107 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Liang, W.; Limberger, M.; Schmidt, M.; Dettmering, D.; Hugentobler, U.; Biltza, D.; Jakowski, N.; Hoque, M.; Wilken, V.; Gerzen, T.: Article: Regional modeling of ionospheric peak parameters using GNSS data—An update for IRI. Advances in Space Research 55 (8), 2015, 1981–1993 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Pail, R.: CHAMP-, GRACE-, GOCE-Satellite Projects – 29-1. In: Grafarend, E. (Hrsg.): Encyclopedia of Geodesy. Springer International Publishing, 2015 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Seitz, M.; Angermann, D.; Gerstl, M.; Bloßfeld, M.; Sánchez, L.; Seitz, F.: Geometrical reference systems. In: Freeden, W.; Nashed, M.; Sonar, T. (Hrsg.): Handbook of Geomathematics (Second Edition). Springer, 2015, 1-35 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Schmidt, M.; Dettmering, D.; Seitz, F.: Using B-spline expansions for ionosphere modeling. In: Freeden, W.; Nashed, M.; Sonar, T. (Hrsg.): Handbook of Geomathematics (Second Edition). Springer, 2015, 939-983 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Schwatke, C.; Dettmering, D.; Bosch, W.; Seitz, F.: DAHITI – an innovative approach for estimating water level time series over inland waters using multi-mission satellite altimetry. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 19 (10), 2015, 4345-4364 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Murböck, M.: Virtual Constellations of Next Generation Gravity Missions. Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2015, mehr… BibTeX
  • Limberger, M.: Ionosphere modeling from GPS radio occultations and complementary data based on B-splines. Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2015, mehr… BibTeX
  • Schlie, J.; Murböck, M.; Pail, R.: Feasibility Study of a Future Satellite Gravity Mission Using GEO-LEO Line-of-Sight Observations. Gravity, Geoid and Height Systems. Proceedings of the IAG Symposium GGHS2012, October 9-12, 2012, Venice, Italy. Part III. IAG Symposia, 2015 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Daras, I.; Pail, R.; Murböck, M.; Yi, W.: Gravity field processing with enhanced numerical precision for LL-SST missions. Journal of Geodesy 2015 (89), 2015, 99-110 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
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