Sciences of Geodesy - I Advances and Future Directions /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Xu, Guochang (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geology.; Geophysics.; Remote sensing.; Physical measurements.; Measurement.; Earth Sciences.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.; Measurement Science and Instrumentation.

This series of reference books describes sciences of different elds in and around geodesy with independent chapters. Each chapter covers an individual eld and describes the history, theory, objective, technology, development, highlights of research and applications. In addition, problems as well as...

Table of Contents:

• Absolute and Relative Gravimetry
• Adaptively Robust Kalman Filters with Applications in Navigation
• Airborne Gravity Field Determination
• Analytic Orbit Theory
• Deformation and Tectonics: Contribution of GPS Measurements to Plate Tectonics – Overview and Recent Developments
• Earth Rotation
• Equivalence of GPS Algorithms and Its Inference
• Marine Geodesy
• Satellite Laser Ranging
• Superconducting Gravimetry
• Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry.