Regional gravity field modeling: Theory and practical results

Sciences of Geodesy - II: Innovations and Future Developments

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 185-291

  Denker, Heiner ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

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