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This work was supported in part by Grant No. NsG 87-60 and Contract NSR 09-015-018 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Veis, G. The determination of the radius of the earth and other geodetic parameters as derived from optical satellite data. Bull. Geodesique 89, 253–275 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02525700
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