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PHYSICAL GEODESY PROJECT

Project Coordinator: Alessandro Capra, Italy
Project Members: Lars Sjoberg, Sweden, Andres Zakrajsek Argentina, Hans Werner Schenke, Germany, John Manning, Australia

Goal: Collection and analysis of physical geodesy data, for the development of a new high resolution Geoid for the Antarctic.

Key activities:

• The collation of extensive data holdings related to topography, bathymetry and gravity as essential inputs to Geoid computation, includes:
• Data collection and analysis of gravity related data ground/airborne/satellite data.
• Collect relevant data from satellite altimetry
• Collaboration with International Geoid Service (IGES) and International association of Geodesy (IAG)
• Collaboration with SCAR WGs Solid Earth Geophysics, Geology, Glaciology
• Collaboration with BEDMAP, ADGRAV, RAMP as data for Geoid computation
• Participate in the ADMAP meeting and Earth Science in Antarctic, NZ, in 1999
• Preparing data base of information from collated information prior to computation
• Evaluation of EGM96 improvement over OSU91 in Antarctica
• Facilitate computation of improved tidal models
• Prepare for computation of high resolution Geoid model

Report on Physical Geodesy project for XXVI SCAR meeting, 10-14 July 2000, Tokyo, Japan - written by Alessandro Capra (7Kb)

Presentation of Physical Geodesy project given by Alessandro Capra at IUGG, July 1999 - in MS PowerPoint 97 format and is approx 2.9Mb. Alternatively you could have a look at the PDF document [only 469 Kb!]

Paper on "A Project for archiving and managing physical geodesy data in Antarctica" given at the Antarctic Geodesy Symposium 99, in Poland, 14-16 July 1999. [In PDF format, approx. 363 Kb]