STUDIES ON THE ACCURACY OF THE COMPUTATION OF GRAVITY IN HIGH ELEVATIONS

Abstract

The study of gravity in high elevations gained importance during the last years. It is necessary, especially in connection with checking airborne gravimetric surveys, not only to compute these gravity values from gravity measured on the earth's surface, but also to know the accuracy obtainable. A general theory of accuracy of these computations is sketched and numerical values given. The central conception is the covariance function which was introduced into gravimetry. After the theoretical foundations are summarized, some detailed investigations concerning different computational methods are given. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1962
Accession Number
AD0282957

Entities

People

  • Helmut Moritz

Organizations

  • Ohio State University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Airborne
  • Computational Science
  • Computations
  • Covariance
  • Data Science
  • Elevation
  • Gravimetry
  • Gravity
  • Information Science
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Surveys

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