D.L.F. van Loon and T.J. Poelstra

Delft, 1976. 28 pagina's.
ISBN-13: 978 90 6132 223 8. ISBN-10: 90 6132 223 5.

Summary

The camera station of the Geodetic Institute of Delft University of Technology has participated in a number of internationally coordinated geodetic satellite observation programmes. In a previous publication contributions to several international observation programmes were discussed. The present publication concentrates on the methods and formulas applied for the reduction of observations made for the European Short Arc Observation Programme (SAOP). These photographic satellite observations have been made at two observing-sites i.e. Delft-Ypenburg and Kootwijk, in the period April 1971-April 1974.
Some results of observations and computations are given.

Contents

Contents

Summary  4

1. Introduction  5
2. Some technical details  5
3. Time reduction  8
4. Position reduction  9
5. Conversion to fixed-Earth reference  12
6. Quality assessment by means of curve-fitting  16
7. Reporting for SAOP  18
8. Results  18

References  21
Tables I-V Observations from Ypenburg-site  22
Table VI Observations from Kootwijk Observatory  28