Toward the Combination of the Most Reliable Terrestrial and Satellite Gravimetric Data for Precise Geoid Determination of Egypt
ENGINEERING RESEARCH JOURNAL (ERJ) • 2023
Publication Information
Authors
Prof. Ahmed Shaker; Prof. Abdallah Saad; Eng. Abdelhameed Elharty
Keywords
Terrestrial gravity, GGMs validation, GGMsimproving, Filtering, Unification
Journal
ENGINEERING RESEARCH JOURNAL (ERJ)
Publisher
Not Available
Volume
52
Issue
3
Pages
PP: 85- 92
publication.type
Local
Paper Link
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Abstract
The gravity field is important to determine the size and shape of the earth, to determine the heights, to
investigate the structure of the crust, and to explore the mineral wealth. A lot of gravity observations have been taken
in Egypt. Those gravity observations are taken over a long-time span with different gravimeters, different references,
and different processing methodologies. Those huge amounts of data need to be filtered and unified before using
them in precise geoid determination. In the advent of satellite missions for gravity field determination and the yielded
global gravity models with good resolution and precision, filtering the terrestrial observed gravity and improving the
global gravity models should be done. In this research, the recent Global Geopotential Models (GGMs) will be used
in filtering the terrestrial gravity anomalies, and then the reliable terrestrial anomalies will be used in improving the
global model gravity anomalies. Four recent GGMs (EGM2008, XGM2019e_2159, GOCO06s, and SGG-UGM 2)
are validated using terrestrial gravity anomalies to determine which model best fits the Earth’s external gravity field
in Egypt.
Thousands of terrestrial gravity anomalies are collected as different data sets, so one of the aims of this
research is to unify them using the common points among them. Finally, gravity anomalies are used to obtain their
corresponding undulation values using a simple model. The obtained results of this study are recommended when
collecting all the gravity observations taken all over Egypt to compute precise gravimetric geoid.
investigate the structure of the crust, and to explore the mineral wealth. A lot of gravity observations have been taken
in Egypt. Those gravity observations are taken over a long-time span with different gravimeters, different references,
and different processing methodologies. Those huge amounts of data need to be filtered and unified before using
them in precise geoid determination. In the advent of satellite missions for gravity field determination and the yielded
global gravity models with good resolution and precision, filtering the terrestrial observed gravity and improving the
global gravity models should be done. In this research, the recent Global Geopotential Models (GGMs) will be used
in filtering the terrestrial gravity anomalies, and then the reliable terrestrial anomalies will be used in improving the
global model gravity anomalies. Four recent GGMs (EGM2008, XGM2019e_2159, GOCO06s, and SGG-UGM 2)
are validated using terrestrial gravity anomalies to determine which model best fits the Earth’s external gravity field
in Egypt.
Thousands of terrestrial gravity anomalies are collected as different data sets, so one of the aims of this
research is to unify them using the common points among them. Finally, gravity anomalies are used to obtain their
corresponding undulation values using a simple model. The obtained results of this study are recommended when
collecting all the gravity observations taken all over Egypt to compute precise gravimetric geoid.
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