A side-by-side test of four land gravity meters

Geophysics

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 765-775

  Chapin, David A ^a,b   Crawford, Michael F ^a   Baumeister, Max ^c  

^a BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

^b Building 2   (United States)

^c Photo Gravity Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; GRAVIMETERS; MAPPING; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; SURVEYS;

LAND GRAVITY SURVEY; SEISMIC SURVEY; AVERAGE ABSOLUTE DEVIATION; DIGITAL INTERFACES; FIELD INSTRUMENTS; FIELD SURVEYS; GRAVITY MEASUREMENT; SEISMIC SURVEYS; STATISTICAL ESTIMATORS; THERMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; USER INTERFACES;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; GRAVITY SURVEY; INSTRUMENTATION;

EID: 0033133542     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444586     Document Type: Article

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