DETERMINISTICALLY-MODIFIED INTEGRAL ESTIMATORS OF GRAVITATIONAL TENSOR

The Earth’s global gravity field modelling is an important subject in Physical Geodesy. For this purpose different satellite gravimetry missions have been designed and launched. Satellite gravity gradiometry (SGG) is a technique to measure the second-order derivatives of the gravity field. The gravi...

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Main Authors: Romeshkani, Mohsen, Eshagh, Mehdi
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Federal do Paraná-UFPR 2015
Subjects:
Geociências; Geodésia
Isotropic Kernels; Gravity Anomalies; Gravity Gradients; Modification; Simulation of Gravitational Tensor; Truncation Coefficients.
Fennoscandia
Online Access:http://revistas.ufpr.br/bcg/article/view/40464
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Summary:The Earth’s global gravity field modelling is an important subject in Physical Geodesy. For this purpose different satellite gravimetry missions have been designed and launched. Satellite gravity gradiometry (SGG) is a technique to measure the second-order derivatives of the gravity field. The gravity field and steady state ocean circulation explorer (GOCE) is the first satellite mission which uses this technique and is dedicated to recover Earth’s gravity models (EGMs) up to medium wavelengths. The existing terrestrial gravimetric data and EGM scan be used for validation of the GOCE data prior to their use. In this research, the tensor of gravitation in the local north-oriented frame is generated using deterministically-modified integral estimators involving terrestrial data and EGMs. The paper presents that the SGG data is assessable with an accuracy of 1-2 mE in Fennoscandia using a modified integral estimatorby the Molodensky method. A degree of modification of 100 and an integration cap size of 2.5° for integrating 5´x5´ terrestrial data are proper parameters for the estimator.

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