Open AccessPossibility to determine highly precise geoid for Egypt territory
Author(s) -
Moamen Awad Habib Gad,
Oleg Odalović,
Sofija Naod
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
geodetski vestnik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.254
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1581-1328
pISSN - 0351-0271
DOI - 10.15292/geodetski-vestnik.2020.04.578-593
Subject(s) - geoid , geodesy , undulation of the geoid , geopotential , standard deviation , gravitational field , collocation (remote sensing) , geology , geography , geophysics , mathematics , remote sensing , statistics , physics , astronomy , measured depth
This paper presents an attempt to consider whether it is possible to determine a geoid at the centimetre level in the territory of Egypt based on recently available global and local gravity field data. The paper has two main objectives. Firstly, the paper overviews previously published geoid solutions, while the second objective investigates the performance of the recent global geopotential models (GGM) in Egypt. The existing geoid solutions have illustrated that there is an insufficient distribution of data which is sampled inconsistently. At this time, data deficiency still exists, and to overcome it, we have selected a "data window" and applied the Least Square Collocation (LSC) technique. The outcome from LSC was interesting and acceptable, and we obtained a "sample" geoid that has a standard deviation of 11 cm for the external control points.