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Physical Geodesy

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  • © 2006

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Authors:
  1. Bernhard Hofmann-Wellenhof

    1. Institut für Navigation und Satellitengeodäsie, Technische Universität Graz, Graz, Austria

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  2. Helmut Moritz

    1. Institut für Navigation und Satellitengeodäsie, Technische Universität Graz, Graz, Austria

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  • Based on "Heiskanen/Moritz" which served for more than 30 years as a standard reference
  • Physical geodesy treated encyclopedically
  • Seamless welding of new ideas and methods (GPS, satellites, collocation)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Motivation

    Pages 1-2

  3. Fundamentals of potential theory

    Pages 3-41

  4. Gravity field of the earth

    Pages 43-128

  5. Gravity reduction

    Pages 129-155

  6. Heights

    Pages 157-172

  7. The geometry of the earth

    Pages 173-237

  8. Gravity field outside the earth

    Pages 239-253

  9. Space methods

    Pages 255-288

  10. Modern views on the determination of the figure of the earth

    Pages 289-344

  11. Statistical methods in physical geodesy

    Pages 345-367

  12. Least-squares collocation

    Pages 369-377

  13. Computational methods

    Pages 379-388

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 389-403
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"Physical Geodesy" by Heiskanen and Moritz, published in 1967, has for a long time been considered as the standard introduction to its field. The enormous progress since then, however, required a complete reworking. While basic material could be retained other parts required a complete update. This concerns, above all, the adaptation to the fact that the geometry can now be precisely determined by methods such as GPS, and that new satellite methods, combined with terrestrial methods, also make a detailed determination of the earth's gravitational field a possibility and a necessity. Highlights include: emphasis on global integration of geometry and gravity, a simplified approach to Molodensky's theory without integral equations, and a general combination of all geodetic data by least-squares collocation. In the second edition minor mistakes have been corrected.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Navigation und Satellitengeodäsie, Technische Universität Graz, Graz, Austria

    Bernhard Hofmann-Wellenhof, Helmut Moritz

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