Physical Geodesy (Rummel 1992)

Lecture Notes from TU Delft. Covers contents prior to Champ era.

Lecture Notes (TU Delft)

Contents:

Phsical Geodesy I

1) Introduction; 2) gravitation; 3) series expansion of gravitational field; 4) moving measurement frame; 5) gravity; 6) gravimeter; 7) normal gravity field; 8) linear model of the Earth's gravity field; 9) potential differences and heights; 10) gravity reduction to sea level - a question of model precision; 11) solution of the Stokes problem; 12) geoid computation; 13) applications; Appendix Legendre functions and spherical harmonics.

Phsical Geodesy II

14) Representation of gravity anomalies; 15) Covariance modelling; 16) Introduction to collocation; 17) Spectral relationships of gravity quantities; 18) Pocket guides to Physical Geodesy

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