Absolute gravimetry with the Hannover meters JILAg-3 and FG5-220, and their deployment in a Danish-German cooperation

ZFV - Zeitschrift fur Geodasie, Geoinformation und Landmanagement

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 149-163

  Timmen, Ludger ^a   Gitlein, Olga ^a   Müller, Jürgen ^a   Strykowski, Gabriel ^b   Forsberg, Rene ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

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