Symposium G01: Positioning -- Symposium G02:Advanced Space Technology -- Symposium G03: Determination of the Gravity Field; Gravimetry and Gravity Instrumentation; Gravity Satellite Missions: Data Processing and Applications; Satellite Altimetry for Gravity, Geoid and SST; Heights and Vertical Datums; Geoid Modelling -- Symposium G04: General Theory and Methodology -- Symposium G05: Geodynamics…
Introduction -- General coordinates in R³ -- The Earth gravity field: basics -- The anomalous potential and its determination -- Geodetic coordinate systems -- The relation between levelling, geodetic and other unholonomic heights -- The height datum problem.This book provides the necessary background of geometry, mathematics and physical geodesy, useful to a rigorous approach to geodetic heig…