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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
earth and planetary sciences
Local geoid determination combining gravity disturbances and GPS/levelling: A case study in the Lake Nasser area, Aswan, Egypt
Journal of Geodesy, Volume 75, No. 7-8, Year 2001
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The use of GPS for height control in an area with existing levelling data requires the determination of a local geoid and the bias between the local levelling datum and the one implicitly defined when computing the local geoid. If only scarse gravity data are available, the heights of new data may be collected rapidly by determining the ellipsoidal height by GPS and not using orthometric heights. Hence the geoid determination has to be based on gravity disturbances contingently combined with gravity anomalies. Furthermore, existing GPS/levelling data may also be used in the geoid determination if a suitable general gravity field modelling method (such as least-squares collocation, LSC) is applied. A comparison has been made in the Aswan Dam area between geoids determined using fast Fourier transform (FFT) with gravity disturbances exclusively and LSC using only the gravity disturbances and the disturbances combined with GPS/levelling data. The EGM96 spherical harmonic model was in all cases used in a remove-restore mode. A total of 198 gravity disturbances spaced approximately 3 km apart were used, as well as 35 GPS/levelling points in the vicinity and on the Aswan Dam. No data on the Nasser Lake were available. This gave difficulties when using FFT, which requires the use of gridded data. When using exclusively the gravity disturbances, the agreement between the GPS/levelling data were 0.71 ± 0.17 m for FFT and 0.63 ± 0.15 for LSC. When combining gravity disturbances and GPS/levelling, the LSC error estimate was ± 0.10 m. In the latter case two bias parameters had to be introduced to account for a possible levelling datum difference between the levelling on the dam and that on the adjacent roads. © Springer-Verlag 2001.
Authors & Co-Authors
Tscherning, C. C.
Unknown Affiliation
Radwan, Anwar H.A.
Egypt, Helwan
National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Cairo
Tealeb, Ali A.
Egypt, Helwan
National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Cairo
Mahmoud, Salah M.
Egypt, Helwan
National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Cairo
Mohamed, Abdel Monem S.
Egypt, Helwan
National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Cairo
Hassan, R. M.
Egypt, Helwan
National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Cairo
El-Syaed, I.
Egypt, Helwan
National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Cairo
Kamal, S.
Egypt, Helwan
National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Cairo
Statistics
Citations: 25
Authors: 8
Affiliations: 1
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1007/s001900100185
ISSN:
09497714
Study Design
Case Study
Study Approach
Qualitative
Study Locations
Egypt