How accurately can we determine orthometric height differences from GPS and geoid data?

Journal of Surveying Engineering

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-10

  Fotopoulos, Georgia ^a   Kotsakis, Christopher ^a   Sideris, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Geoid; Global positioning; Height; Leveling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEODESY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

SURFACE MODELS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; GEOID; GPS; GRAVIMETRY; HEIGHT DETERMINATION;

EID: 0037316152     PISSN: 07339453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9453(2003)129:1(1)     Document Type: Article

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