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  title info:
    title: Physical Geodesy
  name:
    name part: Hofmann-Wellenhof, Bernhard.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Moritz, Helmut.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: au
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVII, 403 p. 111 illus. online resource.
  abstract: "Physical Geodesy" by Heiskanen and Moritz, published in 1967, has for a long time been considered as the standard introduction to its field. The enormous progress since then, however, required a complete reworking. While basic material could be retained other parts required a complete update. This concerns, above all, the adaptation to the fact that the geometry can now be precisely determined by methods such as GPS, and that new satellite methods, combined with terrestrial methods, also make a detailed determination of the earth's gravitational field a possibility and a necessity. Highlights include: emphasis on global integration of geometry and gravity, a simplified approach to Molodensky's theory without integral equations, and a general combination of all geodetic data by least-squares collocation.
  table of contents: Motivation -- Fundamentals of potential theory -- Gravity field of the earth -- Gravity reduction -- Heights -- The geometry of the earth -- Gravity field outside the earth -- Space methods -- Modern views on the determination of the figure of the earth -- Statistical methods in physical geodesy -- Least-squares collocation -- Computational methods.
  note: by Bernhard Hofmann-Wellenhof, Helmut Moritz.
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geophysics
  subject:
    topic: Oceanography
  subject:
    topic: Geotechnical engineering
  subject:
    topic: Geographical information systems
  subject:
    topic: Civil engineering
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Geographical Information Systems/Cartography
  subject:
    topic: Geophysics/Geodesy
  subject:
    topic: Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Oceanography
  subject:
    topic: Civil Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences, general
  classification: GA1-1776
  classification: 910.285
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783211274675
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b139113
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204172609.0
    record identifier: 978-3-211-27467-5