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Experiences with the QDaedalus system for astrogeodetic determination of deflections of the vertical / Markus Hauk in Survey review, vol 49 n° 355 (October 2017)  

Public [article]  inSurvey review > vol 49 n° 355 (October 2017) . - pp 294 - 301 Titre : Experiences with the QDaedalus system for astrogeodetic determination of deflections of the vertical Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Markus Hauk, Auteur ; C. Hirt, Auteur ; C. Ackermann, Auteur Année de publication : 2017 Article en page(s) : pp 294 - 301 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie physique [Termes IGN] astronomie de position [Termes IGN] Bavière (Allemagne) [Termes IGN] chambre zénithale [Termes IGN] champ de pesanteur local [Termes IGN] détecteur à transfert de charge [Termes IGN] déviation de la verticale [Termes IGN] tachéomètre Résumé : (Auteur) This paper explores the astrogeodetic deflection of the vertical (VD) determination with a light-weight tachymeter-based measurement system called ‘QDaedalus’ developed at ETH Zurich. A description of the relevant components of the system is given to show the set-up and operation. The measuring process including CCD-tachymeter calibration and the astronomical data processing are summarised. The paper then analyses the achievable accuracy of VDs based on new measurement data acquired in Bavaria over several nights. Our measurements were executed atop a pillar on the roof of the TUM and at six stations in the Bavarian Alps (Estergebirge) with highly accurate VDs from previous digital zenith camera measurements available. Our comparisons indicate an accuracy level of 0.15–0.20 arc-seconds for VDs measured with QDaedalus. As a conclusion, our results show that the QDaedalus system is a promising sensor for accurate local astronomical gravity field surveys when a zenith camera is not available. Numéro de notice : A2017-552 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article DOI : 10.1080/00396265.2016.1171960 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1080/00396265.2016.1171960 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=86613 [article]

A surface spherical harmonic expansion of gravity anomalies on the ellipsoid / S.J. Claessens in Journal of geodesy, vol 89 n° 10 (october 2015)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 89 n° 10 (october 2015) . - pp 1035 - 1048 Titre : A surface spherical harmonic expansion of gravity anomalies on the ellipsoid Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : S.J. Claessens, Auteur ; C. Hirt, Auteur Année de publication : 2015 Article en page(s) : pp 1035 - 1048 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie physique [Termes IGN] anomalie de pesanteur [Termes IGN] ellipsoïde de référence [Termes IGN] ellipsoïde GRS 1980 [Termes IGN] harmonique sphérique [Termes IGN] transformation Résumé : (auteur) A surface spherical harmonic expansion of gravity anomalies with respect to a geodetic reference ellipsoid can be used to model the global gravity field and reveal its spectral properties. In this paper, a direct and rigorous transformation between solid spherical harmonic coefficients of the Earth’s disturbing potential and surface spherical harmonic coefficients of gravity anomalies in ellipsoidal approximation with respect to a reference ellipsoid is derived. This transformation cannot rigorously be achieved by the Hotine–Jekeli transformation between spherical and ellipsoidal harmonic coefficients. The method derived here is used to create a surface spherical harmonic model of gravity anomalies with respect to the GRS80 ellipsoid from the EGM2008 global gravity model. Internal validation of the model shows a global RMS precision of Numéro de notice : A2015-881 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-015-0832-2 Date de publication en ligne : 17/06/2015 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-015-0832-2 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=79413 [article]

The AUSGeoid09 model of the Australian Height Datum / Will E. Featherstone in Journal of geodesy, vol 85 n° 3 (March 2011)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 85 n° 3 (March 2011) . - pp 133 - 150 Titre : The AUSGeoid09 model of the Australian Height Datum Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Will E. Featherstone, Auteur ; J.F. Kirby, Auteur ; C. Hirt, Auteur ; M. Filmer, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2011 Article en page(s) : pp 133 - 150 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Systèmes de référence et réseaux [Termes IGN] Australian Height Datum [Termes IGN] Australie [Termes IGN] géoïde local [Termes IGN] positionnement par GNSS Résumé : (Auteur) AUSGeoid09 is the new Australia-wide gravimetric quasigeoid model that has been a posteriori fitted to the Australian Height Datum (AHD) so as to provide a product that is practically useful for the more direct determination of AHD heights from Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). This approach is necessary because the AHD is predominantly a third-order vertical datum that contains a ~1 m north-south tilt and ~0.5 m regional distortions with respect to the quasigeoid, meaning that GNSS-gravimetric-quasigeoid and AHD heights are inconsistent. Because the AHD remains the official vertical datum in Australia, it is necessary to provide GNSS users with effective means of recovering AHD heights. The gravimetric component of the quasigeoid model was computed using a hybrid of the remove-compute-restore technique with a degree-40 deterministically modified kernel over a one-degree spherical cap, which is superior to the remove-compute-restore technique alone in Australia (with or without a cap). This is because the modified kernel and cap combine to filter long-wavelength errors from the terrestrial gravity anomalies. The zero-tide EGM2008 global gravitational model to degree 2,190 was used as the reference field. Other input data are ~1.4 million land gravity anomalies from Geoscience Australia, 1' x ' DNSC2008GRA altimeter-derived gravity anomalies offshore, the 9"x 9" GEODATA-DEM9S Australian digital elevation model, and a readjustment of Australian National Levelling Network (ANLN) constrained to the CARS2006 mean dynamic ocean topography model. To determine the numerical integration parameters for the modified kernel, the gravimetric component of AUSGeoid09 was compared with 911 GNSS-observed ellipsoidal heights at benchmarks. The standard deviation of fit to the GNSS-AHD heights is + 222 mm, which dropped to + 134 mm for the readjusted GNSS-ANLN heights showing that careful consideration now needs to be given to the quality of the levelling data used to assess gravimetric quasigeoid models. The publicly released version of AUSGeoid09 also includes a geometric component that models the difference between the gravimetric quasigeoid and the zero surface of the AHD at 6,794 benchmarks. This a posteriori fitting used least-squares collocation (LSC) in cross-validation mode to determine a correlation length of 75 km for the analytical covariance function, whereas the noise was taken from the estimated standard deviation of the GNSS ellipsoidal heights. After this LSC surface fitting, the standard deviation of fit reduced to + 30 mm, one-third of which is attributable to the uncertainty in the GNSS ellipsoidal heights. Numéro de notice : A2011-163 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-010-0422-2 Date de publication en ligne : 19/11/2010 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-010-0422-2 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=30941 [article]

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Combining EGM2008 and SRTM/DTM2006.0 residual terrain model data to improve quasigeoid computations in mountainous areas devoid of gravity data / C. Hirt in Journal of geodesy, vol 84 n° 9 (September 2010)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 84 n° 9 (September 2010) . - pp 557 - 567 Titre : Combining EGM2008 and SRTM/DTM2006.0 residual terrain model data to improve quasigeoid computations in mountainous areas devoid of gravity data Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : C. Hirt, Auteur ; Will E. Featherstone, Auteur ; Urs Marti, Auteur Année de publication : 2010 Article en page(s) : pp 557 - 567 Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie physique [Termes IGN] Alpes [Termes IGN] champ de pesanteur terrestre [Termes IGN] Earth Gravity Model 2008 [Termes IGN] géoïde terrestre [Termes IGN] modèle de géopotentiel [Termes IGN] modèle numérique de terrain [Termes IGN] montagne [Termes IGN] résidu Résumé : (Auteur) A global geopotential model, like EGM2008, is not capable of representing the high-frequency components of Earth’s gravity field. This is known as the omission error. In mountainous terrain, omission errors in EGM2008, even when expanded to degree 2,190, may reach amplitudes of 10 cm and more for height anomalies. The present paper proposes the utilisation of high-resolution residual terrain model (RTM) data for computing estimates of the omission error in rugged terrain. RTM elevations may be constructed as the difference between the SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) elevation model and the DTM2006.0 spherical harmonic topographic expansion. Numerical tests, carried out in the German Alps with a precise gravimetric quasigeoid model (GCG05) and GPS/levelling data as references, demonstrate that RTM-based omission error estimates improve EGM2008 height anomaly differences by 10 cm in many cases. The comparisons of EGM2008-only height anomalies and the GCG05 model showed 3.7 cm standard deviation after a bias-fit. Applying RTM omission error estimates to EGM2008 reduces the standard deviation to 1.9 cm which equates to a significant improvement rate of 47%. Using GPS/levelling data strongly corroborates these findings with an improvement rate of 49%. The proposed RTM approach may be of practical value to improve quasigeoid determination in mountainous areas without sufficient regional gravity data coverage, e.g., in parts of Asia, South America or Africa. As a further application, RTM omission error estimates will allow refined validation of global gravity field models like EGM2008 from GPS/levelling data. Numéro de notice : A2010-415 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-010-0395-1 Date de publication en ligne : 03/07/2010 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-010-0395-1 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=30608 [article]

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Prediction of vertical deflections from high-degree spherical harmonic synthesis and residual terrain model data / C. Hirt in Journal of geodesy, vol 84 n° 3 (March 2010)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 84 n° 3 (March 2010) . - pp 179 - 190 Titre : Prediction of vertical deflections from high-degree spherical harmonic synthesis and residual terrain model data Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : C. Hirt, Auteur Année de publication : 2010 Article en page(s) : pp 179 - 190 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie physique [Termes IGN] Allemagne [Termes IGN] Alpes centrales [Termes IGN] champ de pesanteur terrestre [Termes IGN] déviation de la verticale [Termes IGN] Earth Gravity Model 2008 [Termes IGN] harmonique sphérique [Termes IGN] MNS SRTM [Termes IGN] modèle de géopotentiel [Termes IGN] modèle de géopotentiel local [Termes IGN] modèle numérique de terrain [Termes IGN] Suisse [Termes IGN] valeur efficace Résumé : (Auteur) This study demonstrates that in mountainous areas the use of residual terrain model (RTM) data significantly improves the accuracy of vertical deflections obtained from high-degree spherical harmonic synthesis. The new Earth gravitational model EGM2008 is used to compute vertical deflections up to a spherical harmonic degree of 2,160. RTM data can be constructed as difference between high-resolution Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) elevation data and the terrain model DTM2006.0 (a spherical harmonic terrain model that complements EGM2008) providing the long-wavelength reference surface. Because these RTM elevations imply most of the gravity field signal beyond spherical harmonic degree of 2,160, they can be used to augment EGM2008 vertical deflection predictions in the very high spherical harmonic degrees. In two mountainous test areas—the German and the Swiss Alps—the combined use of EGM2008 and RTM data was successfully tested at 223 stations with high-precision astrogeodetic vertical deflections from recent zenith camera observations (accuracy of about 0.1 arc seconds) available. The comparison of EGM2008 vertical deflections with the ground-truth astrogeodetic observations shows root mean square (RMS) values (from differences) of 3.5 arc seconds for È and 3.2 arc seconds for È , respectively. Using a combination of EGM2008 and RTM data for the prediction of vertical deflections considerably reduces the RMS values to the level of 0.8 arc seconds for both vertical deflection components, which is a significant improvement of about 75%. Density anomalies of the real topography with respect to the residual model topography are one factor limiting the accuracy of the approach. The proposed technique for vertical deflection predictions is based on three publicly available data sets: (1) EGM2008, (2) DTM2006.0 and (3) SRTM elevation data. This allows replication of the approach for improving the accuracy of EGM2008 vertical deflection predictions in regions with a rough topography or for improved validation of EGM2008 and future high-degree spherical harmonic models by means of independent ground truth data. Numéro de notice : A2010-156 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-009-0354-x Date de publication en ligne : 12/11/2009 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-009-0354-x Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=30351 [article]

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Astronomical-topographic levelling using high-precision astrogeodetic vertical deflections and Digital Terrain Model data / C. Hirt in Journal of geodesy, vol 82 n° 4-5 (April - May 2008)  

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