Physical Geodesy A Theoretical Introduction

This textbook introduces physical geodesy. It treats the boundary-value theories of the discipline comprehensively, and provides insights to the theory of gravity reduction based on a spherical Earth model. This book is for students who wish to thoroughly understand the material and to expand their...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guo, Jun-Yi
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer Nature Switzerland 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
Series:Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Earth’s Gravity Field and Some of its Properties
  • Chapter 2. Elementary Potential Theory
  • Chapter 3. Spherical Harmonics
  • Chapter 4. Normal Gravity Field and Reference Earth Ellipsoid
  • Chapter 5. Stokes’ Theory and Beyond
  • Chapter 6. Gravity Reduction
  • Chapter 7. Molodensky’s Theory and Beyond
  • Chapter 8. Fundamentals of Computation and Determination
  • Chapter 9. Flattening and Gravity Inside the Earth