Encyclopedia of Geodesy

1. A Survey on Classical Boundary Value Problems in Physical Geodesy

   • Matthias Augustin, Willi Freeden

2. Absolute Gravity Measurements

   • Leonid F. Vitushkin

3. Ambiguity Dilution of Precision (ADOP)

   • P. J. G. Teunissen

4. Attitude Determination

   • Gabriele Giorgi

5. Best Integer Prediction in Mixed Models

   • P. J. G. Teunissen

6. Cold-Atom Absolute Gravimetry

   • Franck Pereira dos Santos, Sylvain Bonvalot

7. Computational Methods for High-Resolution Gravity Field Modeling

   • Róbert Čunderlík, Karol Mikula, Zuzana Minarechová, Marek Macák

8. Datum Definition and Minimal Constraints

   • Christopher Kotsakis

9. Deformation Analysis

   • Krzysztof Nowel

10. Digital Terrain Models

    • Christian Hirt

11. Disturbing Potential from Deflections of the Vertical: From Globally Reflected Surface Gradient Equation to Locally Oriented Multiscale Modeling

    • Willi Freeden, Christian Gerhards, Helga Nutz, Michael Schreiner

12. Disturbing Potential from Gravity Anomalies: From Globally Reflected Stokes Boundary Value Problem to Locally Oriented Multiscale Modeling

    • Matthias Augustin, Christian Blick, Sarah Eberle, Willi Freeden

13. Dynamic Topography of the Oceans

    • Per Knudsen, Ole Andersen

14. Earth Rotation, Excitation, Atmospheric

    • David Salstein

15. Earth Rotation, Excitation, Core

    • Mathieu Dumberry

16. Earth Rotation, Excitation, Oceanic, Non-tidal

    • Maik Thomas, Jan Saynisch-Wagner

17. Earth Rotation, Excitation, Tidal

    • Michael Schindelegger

18. Ellipsoidal Spacetimes and the Kerr Metric

    • Hernando Quevedo

19. Geodesy in Polar Regions

    • Mirko Scheinert, Martin Horwath, Reinhard Dietrich, Ralf Rosenau, Christoph Knöfel

20. Geodetic Boundary Value Problems

    • Yan Ming Wang

The past few decades have witnessed the explosive growth of Earth Sciences in the pursuit of knowledge and understanding the planet Earth. Such a development addresses the challenging endeavour to enrich human lives with bounding Nature as well as to preserve the Planet Earth, the Moon, the other planets, in total the Cosmos, for generations to come. Geodetic Sciences aspires to define and quantify the internal structure, the surface structure, the Oceans and the Atmosphere as well as the exterior - interior structure of the planets.

Basic principles of Physics and Astronomy, namely the Static Gravity Field, the time-varying Gravity Field, in short Gravitodynamics, of the Earth and the other planets, the complex rotational motion for rigid bodies as well as deforming bodies of the Earth, The Moon, the Sun, and the planets and their moons and on top the time-varying Topography open a fascination Arena of Geodetic Sciences.

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  Michael G. Sideris

Erik W. Grafarend (Essen, 30-10-1939) is a German surveyor and Professor Emeritus at the University of Stuttgart. He has contributed significantly to the modern mathematical methods in geodesy, the regression analysis and the multi-dimensional spaces.

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