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Titre : Gravity forward modeling with a tesseroid-based rock-water-ice approach : Theory and applications in the context of the GOCE mission and height system unification Type de document : Thèse/HDR Auteurs : Thomas Grombein, Auteur Editeur : Munich : Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften Année de publication : 2017 Collection : DGK - C Sous-collection : Dissertationen num. 798 Importance : 222 p. Format : 21 x 30 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-3-7696-5210-9 Note générale : bibliographie
Inaugural dissertation for the fulfillment of the requirements for the academic degree of Doctor of Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) accepted by the Department of Civil Engineering, Geo and Environmental Sciences of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Diese Dissertation ist auf dem Server der Deutschen Geodätischen Kommission unter <http://dgk.badw.de/> sowie auf dem Server des Karlsruher Instituts für Technologie unter <http://dx.doi.org/10.5445/KSP/1000068500> elektronisch publiziertLangues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie physique
[Termes IGN] champ de pesanteur terrestre
[Termes IGN] données GOCE
[Termes IGN] eau de surface
[Termes IGN] glace
[Termes IGN] gradient de gravitation
[Termes IGN] isostasie
[Termes IGN] levé gravimétrique
[Termes IGN] ondelette
[Termes IGN] problème des valeurs limites
[Termes IGN] tesseroidRésumé : (auteur) Due to the increasing availability of global high-resolution digital terrain models (DTMs), it has nowadays become possible to obtain a detailed image of the Earth’s topography. This enables to precisely determine the gravitational effect of the topographic masses on the Earth’s gravity field. The central technique for this aim is gravity forward modeling (GFM), which is based on Newton’s law of universal gravitation, and allows to convert topographic heights along with suitable density assumptions into corresponding values of the gravitational potential and its derivatives. This topographic gravity forward modeling attracts a growing interest in various areas of geodetic gravity field determination and geophysical studies of the Earth’s composition and structure (e.g., solid-earth sciences). However, previous GFM methods have proven unsuitable for the increasing accuracy requirements stemming from an improved precision of geodetic measurements. This is due to commonly used simplifications and approximations, such as (i) the use of condensed heights for water and ice masses (rock-equivalent heights), (ii) mass discretizations or arrangements based on planar and spherical approximations, and (iii) assumptions regarding the spectral consistency between band-limited topographic heights and induced gravity, as in residual terrain modeling (RTM) techniques. This thesis contributes to state-of-the-art GFM in the space domain by providing effective techniques and refinements that overcome these limitations. More concretely, the theory of the Rock-Water-Ice (RWI) approach is developed that encompasses a more realistic modeling of the Earth’s topographic and isostatic masses, i.e., the masses of the continents, oceans, lakes, ice sheets and shelves, as well as their deeper lying (isostatic) compensation masses in the Earth’s interior. The RWI method is characterized by a three-layer decomposition of the Earth’s topography that accounts for a rigorous separate modeling of the rock, water, and ice masses with variable density values. Furthermore, a modified Airy-Heiskanen isostatic concept is applied that is enhanced by additional geophysical information in terms of a seismologically derived depth model of the Mohorovicic discontinuity, i.e., the boundary surface between the Earth’s crust and mantle. To counteract the increased computational demand of the more complex modeling, an efficient numerical algorithm is needed for the forward modeling. For space domain GFM, it has become more and more customary to use a mass discretization based on tesseroids, which are mass bodies bounded by geocentric spherical coordinate lines, and hence are directly linked to the curvature of the Earth. Several studies have demonstrated their superiority over classical prism methods with respect to precision and computation time. However, for global applications based on high-resolution DTMs, any computational speed-up with respect to a single mass body leads to a massive improvement in the overall computation time. This thesis presents a considerable optimization of previously used tesseroid formulas, where the gravitational field of a tesseroid and its derivatives up to second-order are represented in a compact and computationally attractive form. This allows an efficient numerical evaluation that reduces the overall runtime by about 20 to 55%, depending on the evaluated gravity field functional. Additionally, to correctly locate topographic masses in space, tesseroids are arranged on an ellipsoidal reference surface. Within this thesis, the novel tesseroid-based RWI approach is applied to different topographic input data and is used for various gravity field functionals in two main applications. Both are connected to ESA’s satellite mission GOCE (Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer) that measured the second-order derivatives of the gravitational potential, commonly known as gravity gradients. In the first application, RWI-based topographic-isostatic effects are calculated along the orbit of the GOCE satellite and are subtracted from the gravity gradient observations. In this way, the measurement signal is smoothed so that interpolation and prediction tasks, such as harmonic downward continuation of the gradients from satellite altitude to the Earth’s surface, can be executed with an improved numerical stability. While in previous studies such a concept was applied to simulated gravity gradients, this thesis presents the application to real GOCE measurements. As the smoothing effect strongly depends on the variability of the topography crossed by the satellite, this procedure is particularly suitable for regional applications. For a time series when the satellite passed the Himalayan region, a comparison of the observed gradients to the reduced ones reveals significant smoothing effects that are quantified by analyses in the space and frequency domain. The second application contributes to the task of height system unification, which aims to connect the different locally defined reference levels, conventionally used for national height systems. This is achieved by a satellite-based method which employs global geopotential models derived from data of the GOCE mission, whose limited spectral resolution is extended by high-frequency topographic effects of the RWI approach. To extract these high-frequency signals, a novel (residual) gravity forward modeling method is proposed that allows to perform the required high pass filtering directly in the gravity domain, thus, avoiding the above-mentioned assumption (iii) of the RTM method. By using three representative study areas in Germany, Austria, and Brazil, the benefit and importance of high-frequency topography-implied gravity signals for an accurate estimation of height datum offsets is demonstrated. As a highlight of this thesis, the RWI approach is utilized to generate a series of topographic-isostatic gravity field models. These RWI models provide a high-resolution representation of the Earth’s topographic-isostatic gravitational potential in terms of spherical harmonics expanded up to degree and order 1800 (Release 2012), and 2190 (Release 2015). The spherical harmonic coefficients of these models are obtained from a spherical harmonic analysis of global gridded potential values, which have been calculated by massive parallel computing on high-performance computer systems. By using spherical harmonic synthesis, the RWI model can be used to efficiently calculate various functionals of the topographic-isostatic potential in different heights. For this purpose, the RWI models are publicly available via the database of the International Centre for Global Earth Models (ICGEM) and have already been used in a wide range of studies by other research groups. Note de contenu : 1. Introductory chapter
2. Optimized formulas for the gravitational field of a tesseroid
3. A wavelet-based assessment of topographic-isostatic reductions for GOCE gravity gradients
4. The Rock-Water-Ice topographic gravity field model RWI TOPO 2015 and its comparison to a conventional rock-equivalent version
5. On high-frequency topography-implied gravity signals for height system unification 6. Height system unification based on the fixed GBVP approachNuméro de notice : 17488 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Thèse étrangère Note de thèse : dissertation : : Karlsruhe Institute of Technology : 2017 DOI : 10.5445/KSP/1000068500 En ligne : http://doi.org/10.5445/KSP/1000068500 Format de la ressource électronique : URL Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=89828 Assessment of the accuracy of global geodetic satellite laser ranging observations and estimated impact on ITRF scale: estimation of systematic errors in LAGEOS observations 1993–2014 / Graham Appleby in Journal of geodesy, vol 90 n° 12 (December 2016)
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Titre : Assessment of the accuracy of global geodetic satellite laser ranging observations and estimated impact on ITRF scale: estimation of systematic errors in LAGEOS observations 1993–2014 Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Graham Appleby, Auteur ; José Rodríguez, Auteur ; Zuheir Altamimi , Auteur Année de publication : 2016 Article en page(s) : pp 1371 - 1388 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Systèmes de référence et réseaux
[Termes IGN] analyse diachronique
[Termes IGN] champ de gravitation
[Termes IGN] constante
[Termes IGN] données Lageos
[Termes IGN] données TLS (télémétrie)
[Termes IGN] erreur systématique
[Termes IGN] géocentre
[Termes IGN] système de référence géodésiqueRésumé : (Auteur) Satellite laser ranging (SLR) to the geodetic satellites LAGEOS and LAGEOS-2 uniquely determines the origin of the terrestrial reference frame and, jointly with very long baseline interferometry, its scale. Given such a fundamental role in satellite geodesy, it is crucial that any systematic errors in either technique are at an absolute minimum as efforts continue to realise the reference frame at millimetre levels of accuracy to meet the present and future science requirements. Here, we examine the intrinsic accuracy of SLR measurements made by tracking stations of the International Laser Ranging Service using normal point observations of the two LAGEOS satellites in the period 1993 to 2014. The approach we investigate in this paper is to compute weekly reference frame solutions solving for satellite initial state vectors, station coordinates and daily Earth orientation parameters, estimating along with these weekly average range errors for each and every one of the observing stations. Potential issues in any of the large number of SLR stations assumed to have been free of error in previous realisations of the ITRF may have been absorbed in the reference frame, primarily in station height. Likewise, systematic range errors estimated against a fixed frame that may itself suffer from accuracy issues will absorb network-wide problems into station-specific results. Our results suggest that in the past two decades, the scale of the ITRF derived from the SLR technique has been close to 0.7 ppb too small, due to systematic errors either or both in the range measurements and their treatment. We discuss these results in the context of preparations for ITRF2014 and additionally consider the impact of this work on the currently adopted value of the geocentric gravitational constant, GM. Numéro de notice : A2016-808 Affiliation des auteurs : LASTIG LAREG+Ext (2012-mi2018) Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-016-0929-2 Date de publication en ligne : 29/06/2016 En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00190-016-0929-2 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=82596
in Journal of geodesy > vol 90 n° 12 (December 2016) . - pp 1371 - 1388[article]Effects of space weather on GOCE electrostatic gravity gradiometer measurements / Elmas Sinem Ince in Journal of geodesy, vol 90 n° 12 (December 2016)
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Titre : Effects of space weather on GOCE electrostatic gravity gradiometer measurements Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Elmas Sinem Ince, Auteur ; Spiros D. Pagiatakis, Auteur Année de publication : 2016 Article en page(s) : pp 1389 - 1403 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie physique
[Termes IGN] champ de pesanteur terrestre
[Termes IGN] champ magnétique local
[Termes IGN] géophysique externe
[Termes IGN] gradient de gravitation
[Termes IGN] gradiomètre
[Termes IGN] perturbation ionosphérique
[Termes IGN] pôleRésumé : (Auteur) We examine the presence of residual nongravitational signatures in gravitational gradients measured by GOCE electrostatic gravity gradiometer. These signatures are observed over the magnetic poles during geomagnetically active days and can contaminate the trace of the gravitational gradient tensor by up to three to five times the expected noise level of the instrument (∼11 mE). We investigate these anomalies in the gradiometer measurements along many satellite tracks and examine possible causes using external datasets, such as interplanetary electric field measurements from the ACE (advanced composition explorer) and WIND spacecraft, and Poynting vector (flux) estimated from equivalent ionospheric currents derived from spherical elementary current systems over North America and Greenland. We show that the variations in the east-west and vertical electrical currents and Poynting vector components at the satellite position are highly correlated with the disturbances observed in the gradiometer measurements. The results presented in this paper reveal that the disturbances are due to intense ionospheric current variations that are enhanced by increased solar activity that causes a very dynamic drag environment. Moreover, successful modelling and removal of a high percentage of these disturbances are possible using external geomagnetic field observations. Numéro de notice : A2016-809 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-016-0931-8 En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00190-016-0931-8 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=82601
in Journal of geodesy > vol 90 n° 12 (December 2016) . - pp 1389 - 1403[article]On the spectral combination of satellite gravity model, terrestrial and airborne gravity data for local gravimetric geoid computation / Tao Jian in Journal of geodesy, vol 90 n° 12 (December 2016)
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Titre : On the spectral combination of satellite gravity model, terrestrial and airborne gravity data for local gravimetric geoid computation Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Tao Jian, Auteur ; Yan Ming Wang, Auteur Année de publication : 2016 Article en page(s) : pp 1405 - 1418 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie physique
[Termes IGN] analyse harmonique
[Termes IGN] bruit blanc
[Termes IGN] champ de pesanteur terrestre
[Termes IGN] erreur
[Termes IGN] géoïde gravimétrique
[Termes IGN] géoïde local
[Termes IGN] Texas (Etats-Unis)
[Termes IGN] varianceRésumé : (Auteur) One of the challenges for geoid determination is the combination of heterogeneous gravity data. Because of the distinctive spectral content of different data sets, spectral combination is a suitable candidate for its solution. The key to have a successful combination is to determine the proper spectral weights, or the error degree variances of each data set. In this paper, the error degree variances of terrestrial and airborne gravity data at low degrees are estimated by the aid of a satellite gravity model using harmonic analysis. For higher degrees, the error covariances are estimated from local gravity data first, and then used to compute the error degree variances. The white and colored noise models are also used to estimate the error degree variances of local gravity data for comparisons. Based on the error degree variances, the spectral weights of satellite gravity models, terrestrial and airborne gravity data are determined and applied for geoid computation in Texas area. The computed gravimetric geoid models are tested against an independent, highly accurate geoid profile of the Geoid Slope Validation Survey 2011 (GSVS11). The geoid computed by combining satellite gravity model GOCO03S and terrestrial (land and DTU13 altimetric) gravity data agrees with GSVS11 to ±1.1 cm in terms of standard deviation along a line of 325 km. After incorporating the airborne gravity data collected at 11 km altitude, the standard deviation is reduced to ±0.8 cm. Numerical tests demonstrate the feasibility of spectral combination in geoid computation and the contribution of airborne gravity in an area of high quality terrestrial gravity data. Using the GSVS11 data and the spectral combination, the degree of correctness of the error spectra and the quality of satellite gravity models can also be revealed. Numéro de notice : A2016-810 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-016-0932-7 En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00190-016-0932-7 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=82602
in Journal of geodesy > vol 90 n° 12 (December 2016) . - pp 1405 - 1418[article]On the usefulness of relativistic space-times for the description of the Earth’s gravitational field / Michael Soffel in Journal of geodesy, vol 90 n° 12 (December 2016)
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Titre : On the usefulness of relativistic space-times for the description of the Earth’s gravitational field Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Michael Soffel, Auteur ; Francisco Frutos, Auteur Année de publication : 2016 Article en page(s) : pp 1345 - 1357 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie physique
[Termes IGN] champ de pesanteur terrestre
[Termes IGN] coordonnées cartésiennes géocentriques
[Termes IGN] espace-temps
[Termes IGN] relativité générale
[Termes IGN] système de référence géodésiqueRésumé : (Auteur) The usefulness of relativistic space-times for the description of the Earth’s gravitational field is investigated. A variety of exact vacuum solutions of Einstein’s field equations (Schwarzschild, Erez and Rosen, Gutsunayev and Manko, Hernández-Pastora and Martín, Kerr, Quevedo, and Mashhoon) are investigated in that respect. It is argued that because of their multipole structure and influences from external bodies, all these exact solutions are not really useful for the central problem. Then, approximate space-times resulting from an MPM or post-Newtonian approximation are considered. Only in the DSX formalism that is of the first post-Newtonian order, all aspects of the problem can be tackled: a relativistic description (a) of the Earth’s gravity field in a well-defined geocentric reference system (GCRS), (b) of the motion of solar system bodies in a barycentric reference system (BCRS), and (c) of inertial and tidal terms in the geocentric metric describing the external gravitational field. A relativistic SLR theory is also discussed with respect to our central problem. Orders of magnitude of many effects related to the Earth’s gravitational field and SLR are given. It is argued that a formalism with accuracies better than of the first post-Newtonian order is not yet available. Numéro de notice : A2016-806 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-016-0927-4 En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00190-016-0927-4 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=82594
in Journal of geodesy > vol 90 n° 12 (December 2016) . - pp 1345 - 1357[article]A conventional value for the geoid reference potential W0 / L. Sánchez in Journal of geodesy, vol 90 n° 9 (September 2016)PermalinkJoint analysis of GOCE gravity gradients data of gravitational potential and of gravity with seismological and geodynamic observations to infer mantle properties / Marianne Greff-Lefftz in Geophysical journal international, vol 205 n° 1 (April 2016)PermalinkContribution of mass density heterogeneities to the quasigeoid-to-geoid separation / Robert Tenzer in Journal of geodesy, vol 90 n° 1 (January 2016)PermalinkPermalinkExploring mass variations in the Earth system / Mike Sips in Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Vol 43 n° 1 (January 2016)PermalinkGOCE : g à l'échelle de la Terre / Isabelle Panet (2016)PermalinkPermalinkModélisation spatio-temporelle du champ de gravité terrestre / Shuo (2) Wang (2016)PermalinkPermalinkObserved changes in the Earth’s dynamic oblateness from GRACE data and geophysical models / Y. Sun in Journal of geodesy, vol 90 n° 1 (January 2016)Permalink