Course Content (Syllabus)
Boundary value problems in physical geodesy, stochastic and spectral treatment of Stokes’ integral. Level surfaces of the geoid and the reference ellipsoid. Spectral analysis of geopotential models from CHAMP, GRACE and GOCE through spherical approximations of the degree variances and error degree variances. Vertical datum unification and determination of a common Wo. The contribution of GRACE data to water mass change modeling and detection.
Keywords
gravity field, GPS, data adjustment, geopotential models, satellite geodesy