Non-gravitational Perturbations and Satellite Geodesy

This book presents the basic ideas of the physics of the main non-gravitational perturbations and the mathematics of the methods required to compute their orbital effects. The authors convey to the reader the relevance of the different problems that need to be solved to achieve a given level of accuracy in the orbit determination and in the recovery of the geophysically significant parameters. The book will enable postgraduate students, research workers and engineers in astronomy, geophysics, applied mathematics and space science to assess for themselves the possible geodetic uses of given space missions, or maybe to propose a new one, or to propose a combined geodetic use for a mission envisaged for other purposes.