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Kaula 1983
Kaula, W.M. (1983). Inference of variations in the gravity field from satellite-to-satellite range rate. Journal of Geophysical Research 88: doi: 10.1029/JB080i010p08345. issn: 0148-0227.

An analytic scheme for inferring variations of the gravity field from satellite-to-satellite range rate (low-low) is developed. As a test, it is applied to a pair of satellites in polar orbit, at altitude 160 km and spacing 100 km, with 72 data points per revolution. An assumed gravity field of tesseral spherical harmonics up to the eighth degree is completely recovered in three iterations over 64 revolutions. It is apparent tha data points at regular intervals enable the use of data analysis techniques that avoid massive matrix inversions.

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