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Airborne geoid mapping of land and sea areas of East Malaysia
- Source :
- Journal of Geodetic Science, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 84-93 (2017)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2017.
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Abstract
- This paper describes the development of a new geoid-based vertical datum from airborne gravity data, by the Department of Survey and Mapping Malaysia, on land and in the South China Sea out of the coast of East Malaysia region, covering an area of about 610,000 square kilometres. More than 107,000 km flight line of airborne gravity data over land and marine areas of East Malaysia has been combined to provide a seamless land-to-sea gravity field coverage; with an estimated accuracy of better than 2.0 mGal. The iMAR-IMU processed gravity anomaly data has been used during a 2014-2016 airborne survey to extend a composite gravity solution across a number of minor gaps on selected lines, using a draping technique. The geoid computations were all done with the GRAVSOFT suite of programs from DTU-Space. EGM2008 augmented with GOCE spherical harmonic model has been used to spherical harmonic degree N = 720. The gravimetric geoid first was tied at one tide-gauge (in Kota Kinabalu, KK2019) to produce a fitted geoid, my_geoid2017_fit_kk. The fitted geoid was offset from the gravimetric geoid by +0.852 m, based on the comparison at the tide-gauge benchmark KK2019. Consequently, orthometric height at the six other tide gauge stations was computed from HGPS Lev = hGPS - Nmy_geoid2017_.t_kk. Comparison of the conventional (HLev) and GPS-levelling heights (HGPS Lev) at the six tide gauge locations indicate RMS height difference of 2.6 cm. The final gravimetric geoidwas fitted to the seven tide gauge stations and is known as my_geoid2017_fit_east. The accuracy of the gravimetric geoid is estimated to be better than 5 cm across most of East Malaysia land and marine areas
- Subjects :
- QB275-343
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Applied Mathematics
Astronomy and Astrophysics
airborne gravimetry
010502 geochemistry & geophysics
Geodesy
01 natural sciences
Geophysics
Geography
Geoid
Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
Computers in Earth Sciences
east malaysia
geoid modelling
seamless vertical datum
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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Details
- ISSN :
- 20819943
- Volume :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Geodetic Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5180d7eec455b5c53d327af95c1b3a35
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1515/jogs-2017-0010