Gerhard Beutler Bücher

Offering a comprehensive exploration of celestial mechanics, the first volume emphasizes essential mathematical techniques and numerical solutions for ordinary differential equations, alongside orbit determination. The second volume applies these concepts to practical scenarios, including the dynamics of Earth and Moon rotation, artificial satellites, and planetary systems. It covers critical high-tech considerations like gravitational fields, Earth's oblateness, radiation pressure, and atmospheric drag. The work concludes with an overview of advanced, tested software tools for professionals in the field.

These proceedings include most of the papers presented at the lAG Sympo sium GPS Trends in Precise Terrestrial, Airborne, and Spacebome Appli cations held in July 1995 during the XXI-th IUGG General Assembly in Boulder, Colorado. The symposium was jointly organized by the lAG and the International Union of Surveys and Mapping (IUSM). The symposium was divided into four sessions, namely (1) The International GPS Service for Geodynamics (IGS) and other Permanent Networks, (2) Spaceborne Applications of the GPS, (3) Kinematic Applications of the GPS, and (4) The GPS and its Relations to Geophysics. The main purpose was to give an overview of the state of the art in 1995 of the applications of the GPS to geodynamics, geodesy, surveying, and navi gation. The call for papers generated a flood of originally more than 70 abstracts; quite a few could be redirected to other symposia, but still 56 papers found their way into these proceedings. We thus conclude that the volume gives a rather complete overview of GPS Trends in Precise Terrestrial, Airborne, and Spacebome Applications in the year 1995.