A data-driven approach to local gravity field modelling using spherical radial basis functions

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 82, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 457-471

  Klees, R ^a   Tenzer, R ^a   Prutkin, I ^a   Wittwer, T ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

GPS levelling data; Local gravity field modelling; Quasi geoid; Spherical radial basisfunctions

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DATABASE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEODESY; GEOID; GPS; GRAVIMETRY; GRAVITY ANOMALY; GRAVITY FIELD; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; LEVELING; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

EID: 48349088941     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: 14321394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-007-0196-3     Document Type: Article

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