Truncated geoid and gravity inversion for one point-mass anomaly

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 58-66

  Vajda, P ^a   Vanicek P ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dimple onset; Geoid interpretation; Gravimetric inverse problem; Point mass; Truncation

Indexed keywords

GEODESY; GEOID; INVERSE PROBLEM;

EID: 0344848666     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001900050219     Document Type: Article

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