Investigation of topographic reductions and aliasing effects on gravity and the geoid over Greece based on various digital terrain models

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 23-67

  Tziavos, Ilias N ^a   Vergos, G S ^a   Grigoriadis, V N ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aliasing; Geoid heights; Gravity anomalies; Terrain effects

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALIASING; ALIASING EFFECTS; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; GEOID HEIGHTS; GEOID MODELS; GEOPHYSICAL APPLICATIONS; GEOPOTENTIALS; GLOBAL MODELS; GRAVITY ANOMALIES; GRAVITY FIELD; HIGH RESOLUTION; MARINE GRAVITY; RADIAL DENSITY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TERRAIN EFFECT; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS;

BATHYMETRY; COMPUTER CRIME; ERRORS; LANDFORMS; TRACKING RADAR;

TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; GEODESY; GEOID; GEOPOTENTIAL; GRAVITY ANOMALY; GRAVITY FIELD; TOPOGRAPHY;

GREECE;

EID: 77950459955     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-009-9085-z     Document Type: Article

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