This book will be based on the material of the lecture noties in several International Schools for the Determination and Use of the Geoid, organized by theInternational Geoid Serivice of the International Association of Geodesy. It consolidates, unifies, and streamlines this material in a unique way not covereed by the few other books that exist on this subjext. More specifically, the book presents (for the first time in a single volume) the theory and methodology of the most common technique used for precise determination of the geoid, including the computation of the marine geoid from satellite altimetry data. These are illustrated by specific examples and actual computations of local geoids. In addition, the book provides the fundamentals of estimating orthometric heights without spirit levelling, by properly combining a geoid with heights from GPS. Besides the geodectic and geophysical uses, this last application hasmade geoid computation methods very popular in recent years because the entire GPS and GIS user communities are interested in estimating geoid undulations in order to convert GPS heights to physically meaningful orthometric heights (elevations above mean sea level). The overall purpose of the book is, therefore, to provide the user community (academics, graduate students, geophysicists,engineers, oceanographers, GIS and GPS users, researchers) with a self-contained textbook, which will supply them with the complete roadmap of estimating geoid undulations, from the theoretical definitions and formulas to the available numerical methods and their implementation and the test in practice. This book uniquely consolidates, unifies and streamlines material, which is not yet covered by the scarce literature on geoid determination Of great benefit to graduates and lecturers alike Long awaited and comprehensive study INDICE: Chapter 1: A Compendium of Physical Geodesy in View of Geoid Computation and Related Height Questions.- Chapter 2: Development and Applications of Geopotential Models.- Chapter 3: Terrain effects in Geoid Computations.- Chapter 4: Geoid Determination by Least-Squares Collocation.- Chapter 5: Geoid Computation by FFT Techniques.- Chapter 6: Matching the Gravimetric Geoid to the GPS-levelling Undulations.- Chapter 7: Marine Gravity and Geoid from Multi-Satellite Altimetry and Applications.
- ISBN: 978-3-540-74699-7
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 300
- Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés