Possibility to determine highly precise geoid for Egypt territory

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 solutio...

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Published in:Geodetski vestnik 2020-01, Vol.64 (4), p.578-593
Main Authors: Gad, Moamen Awad Habib, Odalović, Oleg, Naod, Sofija
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
collocation
egypt
egypt geoid
geoid
gepotential model
ggms
lsc
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0351-0271
1581-1328
DOI:10.15292/geodetski-vestnik.2020.04.578-593