Method for parsing and calculating performance of satellite gravity field measurement by low-to-low satellite-to-satellite tracking

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9599744-B2
Application number	US-201315025560-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 17, 2013
Priority date	Sep 29, 2013
Publication date	Mar 21, 2017
Grant date	Mar 21, 2017

Abstract

A method for calculating performance of satellite gravity field measurement by low-to-low satellite-to-satellite tracking, includes: acquiring parameters of gravity satellite system; calculating an effect of satellite loads on the power spectrum of nonspherical perturbation potential, so as to obtain an degree error variance; comparing degree error variance with degree variance given by Kaula Rule, and when degree error variance equals degree variance, considering that the highest degree of gravity field measurement is obtained, calculating geoid degree error and its accumulative error, gravity anomaly degree error and its accumulative error, so as to obtain the performance of satellite gravity field measurement by low-to-low satellite-to-satellite tracking. The method is capable of evaluating gravity field measurement performance quickly and effectively, obtaining a rule of effects of the gravity satellite system parameters on the gravity field measurement performance, so as to avoid shortcoming caused by numerical simulation.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for parsing and calculating performance of satellite gravity field measurement by low-to-low satellite-to-satellite tracking, comprising steps of:
step (1): acquiring at least one parameter of a gravity satellite system by low-to-low satellite-to-satellite tracking by the gravity satellite system;
step (2): according to the parameter of the gravity satellite system by low-to-low satellite-to-satellite tracking, calculating an effect of a measuring error of a gravity satellite load on a power spectrum of a nonspherical perturbation potential of earth gravity, so as to obtain an degree error variance of a potential coefficient in a gravity field recovery model;
step (3): comparing the degree error variance of the potential coefficient in the gravity field recovery model with an degree variance of a potential coefficient given by Kaula Rule, wherein with an increase of an order of the gravity field recovery model, the degree error variance gradually increases and the degree variance gradually decreases; when the degree error variance is equal to the degree variance, considering that a maximum valid order of the gravity field measurement is obtained, wherein the degree error variance, the degree variance and the maximum valid order are obtained by the gravity field model;
step (4): according to the degree error variance of the gravity field recovery model, calculating a geoid-order error, an accumulative error, an gravity-anomaly order error and an accumulative error of the gravity field recovery model, wherein the geoid-order error, the accumulative error, the gravity-anomaly order error and the accumulative error are obtained by the gravity field model; and
step (5): summarizing the valid degree of the gravity field measurement, the geoid-order error, the accumulative error, the gravity-anomaly order error and the accumulative error, so as to obtain the performance of satellite gravity field measurement by low-to-low satellite-to-satellite tracking, wherein the valid degree of the gravity field measurement, the geoid-order error, the accumulative error, the gravity-anomaly order error and the accumulative error are obtained by the gravity field model;
wherein the parameter of the gravity satellite system by low-to-low satellite-to-satellite tracking comprises but not limited to at least one orbit parameter of the gravity satellite system and at least one load indicator of the gravity satellite system;
wherein the orbit parameter of the gravity satellite system comprises at least one member of: a maximum valid order of the gravity field recovery N max , a gravity-anomaly order error Δ n of an nth order, a geoid-order accumulative error Δ of the nth order, a gravity-anomaly order error Δg n of the nth order and a gravity-anomaly accumulative error Δg of the nth order, wherein N max , Δ n , Δ, Δg n and Δg are obtained by the gravity field model;
the parameter of the gravity satellite system comprises: a gravity satellite orbit height h and an included angle θ 0 of satellite-to-satellite geocentric vectors, wherein h and θ 0 are obtained by the gravity satellite system,
the load indicator of the gravity satellite system comprises: an inter-satellite range change rate measurement error (Δ{dot over (ρ)}) m , a satellite orbit determining position error (Δr) m , a non-gravitational interference ΔF, an inter-satellite range rate data sampling interval (Δt) Δ{dot over (ρ)} , a non-gravitational interference data interval (Δt) ΔF , satellite orbit position data sampling interval (Δt) Δr and a gravity field measurement service life T, wherein (Δ{dot over (ρ)}) m is obtained by an inter-satellite range measurement device, (Δr) m is obtained by a spaceborne GPS system, and the ΔF is obtained by an accelerometer, wherein the inter-satellite range measurement device, the spaceborne GPS system and the accelerometer are conventional and all provided on the gravity satellite system;
wherein the step (2) specifically comprises steps of:
establishing an analytic formula of a low-to-low satellite-to-satellite tracking gravity field measurement degree error variance δσ n 2 of a potential coefficient:

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Assignees

• Univ Tsinghua

Inventors

• Zhang Yulin
• Wang Zhaokui
• Liu Hongwei
• Fan Li

Classifications

• G01V7/06

  Analysis or interpretation of gravimetric records · CPC title

• G01V7/16 Primary

  specially adapted for use on moving platforms, e.g. ship, aircraft · CPC title

• G01V7/00

  Measuring gravitational fields or waves; Gravimetric prospecting or detecting · CPC title

• G01S19/24

  Acquisition or tracking {or demodulation} of signals transmitted by the system {(synchronisation aspects of direct sequence spread spectrum modulation H04B1/7073)} · CPC title