Moving Base Gravity Gradiometer Survey (GGSS) Program

Abstract

The GGSS program began in early 1983 with the objective of delivering a landmobile and airborne system capable of fast, accurate, and economical gravity gradient surveys of large areas anywhere in the world. The objective included the development and use of post-mission data reduction software to process the survey data into solutions for the gravity disturbance vector components (north, east and vertical). This document describes the GGSS equipment hardware and software, integration and lab test procedures and results, and airborne and land survey procedures and results. Included are discussions on test strategies, post-mission data reduction algorithms, and the data reduction processing experience. Perspectives and conclusions are drawn from the results. Keywords: Gravity gradiometer survey system, Gravity disturbance vector components, Global positioning system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA198956

Entities

People

  • Albert Jircitano
  • Andrew Grierson
  • Louis Pfohl
  • Walter Rusnak

Organizations

  • Bell Aircraft Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Aircrafts
  • Altitude
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Data Processing
  • Data Reduction
  • Elevation
  • Environment
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Measurement
  • Navigation
  • Telemetry Equipment
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Marine Hydrodynamics
  • Oceanography.

Technology Areas

  • Space