The alpine Swiss-French airborne gravity survey

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 8-19

  Verdun, Jérôme ^a,b   Klingelé, Emile E ^a   Bayer, Roger ^b   Cocard, Marc ^a   Geiger, Alain ^a   Kahle, Hans Gert ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

Author keywords

Airbone gravimetry; Equalization; Filtering; Upward continuation

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; BOUGUER ANOMALY; FILTER; GPS; GRAVIMETRY; GRAVITY SURVEY;

FRANCE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0037220993     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2003.01748.x     Document Type: Article

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