A new absolute gravity base in the German Alps

Contributions to Geophysics and Geodesy

Volumn 36, Issue SPEC. ISS. WIGFR, 2006, Pages 7-20

  Timmen, L ^a   Flury, J ^b   Peters, T ^b   Gitlein, O ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Absolute gravimetry; German Alps; Long range gravimeter calibration line

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; GEODESY; GRAVIMETRY; GRAVITY;

ALPS; BAVARIA; BAVARIAN ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; HANNOVER; LOWER SAXONY; WETTERSTEIN MOUNTAINS; ZUGSPITZE;

EID: 37249007332     PISSN: 13352806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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