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Geoid Validation on the Baltic Sea Using Ship-borne GNSS Data

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Pages 457-476 | Received 15 Dec 2017, Accepted 10 May 2018, Published online: 01 Oct 2018
 

Abstract

We studied geoid validation using ship-borne global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) on the Baltic Sea. We obtained geoid heights by combining GNSS–inertial measurement unit observations, tide gauge data, and a physical sea model. We used two different geoid models available for the area. The ship route was divided into lines and the lines were processed separately. The GNSS results were reduced to the sea surface using attitude and draft parameters available from the vessel during the campaign. For these lines, the residual errors between ellipsoidal height versus geoid height and absolute dynamic topography varied between 0 and 15 cm, grand mean being 2 cm. The mean standard deviations of the original time series were approximately 11 cm and reduced to below 5 cm for the time series filtered with 10 min moving average. We showed that it is possible to recover geoid heights from the GNSS observations at sea and validate existing geoid models in a well-controlled area.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the Finnish Meteorological Institute and the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrographical Institute for providing the tide gauge data. We would also like to thank the personnel of Meritaito Ltd for providing us the needed vessel parameters. We thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments.

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