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Treatise on Geophysics, Volume 3. Geodesy

  • Book

  • August 2009
  • Elsevier Science and Technology
  • ID: 1762077

Geodesy, which is the science of measuring the size and shape of the Earth, explores the theory, instrumentation and results from modern geodetic systems. The beginning sections of the volume cover the theory of the Earth's gravity field, the instrumentation for measuring the field, and its temporal variations. The measurements and results obtained from variations in the rotation of the Earth are covered in the sections on short and long period rotation� hanges. Space based geodetic methods, including the global positioning system (GPS) and Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (SAR), are also examined in detail.

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Table of Contents

Overview Potential Theory and Static Gravity Field of the Earth Gravimetric Methods Absolute Gravimeter: Instruments, Concepts and Implementation Superconducting Gravimetry Spacecraft Altimeter Measurements Time Variable Gravity Earth Tides Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Time-Variable Gravity from Satellites Earth Rotation Variations Long Period Variations Nearly Diurnal Variations GPS and Space Based Geodetic Methods Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Geodesy

Authors

Tom Herring Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.