ABSTRACT
We present summarised formulas and worked examples for the propagation of geoid and vertical deflection errors through some common geodetic surveying computations, as well as a demonstration of their effects on least squares adjustments of small simulated geodetic networks. We also present location-specific uncertainties for the vertical deflections derived from the horizontal gradients of the AGQG2017 gravimetric-only quasigeoid model, upon which AUSGeoid2020 is based.
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Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their extremely prompt and constructive reviews of an earlier version of this manuscript. Jack McCubbine and Nicholas Brown publish this paper with the permission of the Chief Executive Officer of Geoscience Australia.
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