Absolute and relative gravimetry

Sciences of Geodesy - I: Advances and Future Directions

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-48

  Timmen, Ludger ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

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