Ground Tracks

Version 1.0.6 (212 KB) by Luigi De Maria
Codes to compute and plot a satellite's Ground Tracks.
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The folder contains several scripts able to compute and plot the Ground Tracks of a satellite orbiting the Earth.
Features:
- unperturbed GTs (just Earth rotation shift)
- perturbed GTs (with second-zonal harmonics, J2)
- repeating GT for both unperturbed and perturbed case
- plot just 1 or, simultaneously, 2 GTs

Cite As

Luigi De Maria (2026). Ground Tracks (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/88076-ground-tracks), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

MATLAB Release Compatibility
Created with R2019b
Compatible with any release
Platform Compatibility
Windows macOS Linux
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Version Published Release Notes
1.0.6

Correction of Mean Anomaly secular variation rate formula, following reference: https://archive.org/details/FundamentalsOfAstrodynamicsAndApplications/page/n677/mode/2up
1.0.5

Added function AstroConstants.m
1.0.4

Added the missing function "kep2car"
1.0.3

updated description
1.0.2

Added a better resolution of Earth picture
1.0.0