On the removal of the effect of topography on gravity disturbance in gravity data inversion or interpretation

Contributions to Geophysics and Geodesy

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 339-369

  Vajda, Peter ^a   Vaniccek P ^b   Meurers, Bruno ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Density contrast; Geoid; Gravitational effect; Potential; Reference ellipsoid; Topo correction; Topographical effect

Indexed keywords

DATA INVERSION; DATA PROCESSING; GEOID; GRAVITY SURVEY; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

EID: 29944440751     PISSN: 13352806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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