Gravity field recovery from airborne gradiometer data using collaction and taking into account correlated errors

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part A: Solid Earth and Geodesy

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-25

  Arabelos, D ^a   Tscherning, C C ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SURVEY; GEODESY; GEOID; GRAVITY FIELD;

EID: 0032794866     PISSN: 14641895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1464-1895(98)00005-2     Document Type: Article

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