Boundary-Value Problems for Gravimetric Determination of a Precise Geoid

• Main Author: Martinec, Zdenek (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1998.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1998.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, 73
• Subjects: Atmospheric sciences.; Air pollution.; Radiation protection.; Radiation-Safety measures.; Environmental monitoring.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution.; Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection.; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis.
• Physical Description: XII, 228 p. 6 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540697855
• ISSN: 0930-0317 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/BFb0010337

This book offers a simultaneous treatment of the theory and numerical application of boundary-value problems related to the determination of a precise geoid from gravimetric data. The following subjects are discussed: topographical effects and their computations in precise gravimetric geoid determination, the downward continuation of a harmonic function, Stokes' problem formulated on an ellipsoid of revolution, spherical Stokes' problem with ellipsoidal corrections involved in boundary conditions for an anomalous potential, and the altimetry-gravimetry boundary-value problem. The answer to a number of scientific problems, raised and discussed in geodetic literature over the past years, can be found here. The book is intended for scientists and advanced graduate students.