TY - GEN AU - Gruber,Thomas AU - Eicker,Annette AU - Flechtner,Frank AU - Gruber,Thomas AU - Eicker,Annette AU - Flechtner,Frank TI - Remote Sensing by Satellite Gravimetry SN - books978-3-0365-0009-6 PY - 2021/// CY - Basel, Switzerland PB - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute KW - Research & information: general KW - bicssc KW - terrestrial water storage (TWS) KW - GRACE KW - GLDAS KW - TRMM KW - drought KW - ENSO KW - NAO KW - Turkey KW - Mass balance KW - Ice Sheets KW - Sea-level Rise KW - Antarctica KW - CryoSat-2 KW - GRACE-Follow On KW - GRACE-FO KW - downward continuation KW - spectral methods KW - gravity field recovery KW - GRACE Follow-On KW - orbit configuration KW - synergistic observation KW - mass transport in the Earth system KW - GRACE and GRACE follow-on mission KW - current and future observation concepts and instruments KW - GRACE TWSA KW - groundwater level anomaly KW - downscaling KW - machine learning KW - boosted regression trees KW - glacial sediment KW - ice mass KW - satellite gravimetry KW - Patagonia KW - ice mass change KW - SLR KW - swarm KW - normal equation combination KW - coseismic gravity gradient changes KW - gravity field model KW - GOCE KW - Earth's gravity field KW - kinematic orbit KW - kinematic baseline KW - time-variable gravity KW - geocenter KW - reference frames KW - self-attraction and loading KW - Level-2 processing KW - time-variable gravity field KW - mass change monitoring KW - next-generation gravity mission KW - temporal gravity field KW - numerical closed-loop simulation KW - satellite mission constellations KW - mass transport KW - gravity field satellite missions KW - GOCE High-Level Processing Facility (HPF), earth gravity field KW - geoid KW - spectral enhancement method (SEM), GPS/leveling N1 - Open Access N2 - Over the last two decades, satellite gravimetry has become a new remote sensing technique that provides a detailed global picture of the physical structure of the Earth. With the CHAMP, GRACE, GOCE and GRACE Follow-On missions, mass distribution and mass transport in the Earth system can be systematically observed and monitored from space. A wide range of Earth science disciplines benefit from these data, enabling improvements in applied models, providing new insights into Earth system processes (e.g., monitoring the global water cycle, ice sheet and glacier melting or sea-level rise) or establishing new operational services. Long time series of mass transport data are needed to disentangle anthropogenic and natural sources of climate change impacts on the Earth system. In order to secure sustained observations on a long-term basis, space agencies and the Earth science community are currently planning future satellite gravimetry mission concepts to enable higher accuracy and better spatial and temporal resolution. This Special Issue provides examples of recent improvements in gravity observation techniques and data processing and analysis, applications in the fields of hydrology, glaciology and solid Earth based on satellite gravimetry data, as well as concepts of future satellite constellations for monitoring mass transport in the Earth system UR - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/3322 UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68312 ER -