Saturday, December 30, 2017

NZ Vertical Datum (PhD Victoria 2016)


Recently, a PhD thesis entitled "Airborne gravity across NZ - for an improved vertical datum" was written by Jack McCubbine of Victoria University, Wellington. The thesis was  supervised by Dr Euan Smith, Dr Fabio Caratori and Dr Matt Amos, and submitted to the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Science. McCubbine obtained MMath from Exeter in 2012.


McCubbine PhD (Victoria Uni, Wellington)

Contents of the thesis;

- Heights and reference surfaces; the disturbing potential; gravity anomalies and geoid heights; vertical datums in NZ; terrestrial gravity in NZ; global gravity models (ggm); airborne gravity across NZ; combining data sets using LSC; computation of a new gravimetric quasigeoid; summary, research outcomes and recommendations for future work.

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