Geoid Determination Theory and Methods /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sansò, Fernando (Editor), Sideris, Michael G. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences, 110
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geophysics.; Geotechnical engineering.; Geographical information systems.; Magnetism.; Magnetic materials.; Earth Sciences.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Earth Sciences, general.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.; Magnetism, Magnetic Materials.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.

Knowledge of the Earth’s gravity field is an essential component for understanding the physical system of the Earth. Inside the masses, the field interacts with many other fields, according to complicated processes of physical and chemical nature; the study of these phenomena is the object of geophy...