The written form of these lecture notes is a modified version of the lecture notes" Terrain
effects in geoid computations" by K. Forsberg, published in the lecture notes of the …

We present a comprehensive view of the origin, significance and implications of topographic
effects in gravimetry. These are gravitational effects of topographic masses that are present …

A 'gravity anomaly'is essentially the difference between the gravitational acceleration
caused by the Earth's masses and that generated by some reference mass distribution …

A new gravimetric geoid model, USGG2009 (see Abbreviations), has been developed for
the United States and its territories including the Conterminous US (CONUS), Alaska …

The 2 arc-minute× 2 arc-minute geoid model (GEOID96) for the United States supports the
conversion between North American Datum 1983 (NAD 83) ellipsoid heights and North …

We investigate the stability of a discrete downward continuation problem for geoid
determination when the surface gravity observations are harmonically continued from the …

This chapter introduces Fourier-based methods, and in particular the fast Fourier transform
(FFT), as a tool for the efficient evaluation of the convolution integrals involved in geoid …

The direct topographical effect that arises when the Stokes problem is treated by means of
Helmert's 2nd condensation technique has been a subject of several studies in the recent …

It has been customary in Geodesy to evaluate the indirect effect that arises from
mathematical removal of the topography in solving the geodetic boundary value problem …

It is the purpose of this thesis to investigate different regional geoid determination methods
with respect to their feasibility for use with a future GOCE satellite-only Earth Gravity Model …