Experiments with two different approaches to gridding terrestrial gravity anomalies and their effect on regional geoid computation

Survey Review

Volumn 37, Issue 288, 2003, Pages 92-112

  Goos, J M ^a   Featherstone, W E ^b   Kirby, J F ^b   Holmes, S A ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRECTION; GEOID; GRAVIMETRY; GRAVITY ANOMALY;

EID: 0037384331     PISSN: 00396265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/sre.2003.37.288.92     Document Type: Article

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