Truncation of spherical convolution integrals with an isotropic kernel

Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 455-465

  Vanicek P ^a   Janak J ^a,b   Featherstone, W E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Geoid determination; Laplace surface spherical harmonics; Legendre polynomials; Orthogonal series expansion

Indexed keywords

GEODESY; GEOID; GRAVIMETRY; NUMERICAL METHOD; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

EID: 19244369410     PISSN: 00393169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024747114871     Document Type: Article

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