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Gravity Method, Airborne

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Synonyms

Aerogravity; Airborne gravimetry

Definition

Airborne:

Anything carried by a fixed wing aircraft, a helicopter, an airship, or an unmanned aircraft.

Aero:

Anything related to the atmosphere above ground.

Gravity:

In this context nonrelativistic mass attraction as defined by Newton.

Gravimetry:

In this context the measurement of the gravity field variation by mass attraction.

Introduction

The law of gravity is one the most fundamental in natural sciences. Instruments for gravity measurements have been developed first for use on land surface, later for use on ships. The instruments used for maritime surveying needed a special platform to compensate the movements of the vessel that add additional components to the main value of the measurement: the acceleration of a well-defined mass due the gravity field of the Earth. The same accounts for airborne applications of gravity meters: The aircraft’s variations in roll, pitch, and yaw angles and height changes must be either...

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  1. Sub-Department Geophysical Reconnaissance – Resources and Near Surface Processes, Federal Agency for Geosciences and Mineral Resources, Hannover, Germany

    Uwe Meyer

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  1. Seismology, National Geophysical Research Insti, Hyderabad, India

    Harsh K. Gupta

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Meyer, U. (2020). Gravity Method, Airborne. In: Gupta, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10475-7_179-1

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