Updated Hungarian gravity field

solution based on fifth generation GOCE

gravity field models
Gyula Tóth and Lóránt Földváry

Motivation Methodology
I 5th generation GOCE gravity field models Functional model of gravity field estimation:
I SRBF (Spherical Radial Basis Functions): I
(TIM, DIR) are available
I Need to update regional gravity field models Nmax  n+1 K
X rk X
F
B(ri , rk ) = (2n + 1) ri · rˆk )
bnPn(ˆ F (ri ) + e(ri ) = xk B (ri , rk )
ri k=1
n=Nmin
Objectives SRBFs are band-limited from Nmin to Nmax and where F (ri ) is any gravity field functional at
located at rk . We used a Reuter grid of data point ri , xk are the unknown parameters
I Regional gravity field modelling using
Shannon band-limited SRBFs with parameter and B F (ri , rk ) is SRBF related to F . The
surface data and GOCE DIR R05 product
c = 700. system is linear in x.
I Testing SRBF modelling & methodology
I VCE (Variance Component Estimation, Koch
I Rigorous LSQ combination of heterogeneous
and Kusche, 2002)
surface data with regularization
I Tikhonov regularization with Bayesian prior

information
Data I VCE iteration yields final variance factors

σVCE of each dataset

I Gravity anomalies (∆g , 509 points)
I VCE iteration yields final regularization
I Deflections of vertical (ξ, η 138 points)
Shannon RBF (n = 200 − 700, bn = 1) parameter
I GPS/levelling quasigeoid heights (ζ)
I Bendefy old levelling network (87 points)
I EOMA levelling network (149 points)

I EOMA recently levelled heights (97 points)

Results

I SRBF bandwidth Nmin = 200, Nmax = 700

I Number of estimated parameters: 598

∆g ξ η

ζBendefy ζEOMA ζEOMA,RL

Estimated ζ residual quasigeoid
Gravity field data in freq. band 200-700 SRBF parameters relative accuracy of parameters
(n = 200 − 700)
Results of parameter estimation
Data are RTM reduced with ERTM2160
model (Hirt et al., 2014) and three different
high-degree geopotential models:
I EGM2008

I EIGEN-6C3stat

I EGM2008-GOCE DIR R05 combined model

ζ inside (1024 points) ζ outside (3598 points)

Geopotential models
GPM datasets on dense Reuter grid
I EGM2008 (Nmax = 2190) Estimated ζ errors
I EIGEN-6C3stat (extended to Nmax = 2190
with EGM2008 coefficients)
I GOCE DIR R05 and EGM2008 models
combined according to optimal spectral
content (Nmax = 2190)

Comparison of results with three geopotential models

Conclusions References
I Hirt C., M. Kuhn, S.J. Claessens, R. Pail, K. Seitz, T. Gruber
I Best data reduction is achieved by combined GOCE (2014) Study of the Earth’s short-scale gravity field using the

Comparison of degree variances of
geopotential models
fifth generation models in bandwidth 200-700 ERTM2160 gravity model, Computers & Geosciences, 73, 71-80
I Koch K-R., Kusche, J. (2002) Regularization of geopotential
I SRBF gravity field modelling proof of concept
determination from satellite data by variance components,
Journal of Geodesy, 76, 259-268

Department of Geodesy and Surveying, Budapest University of Technology and Economics e-mail: gtoth@geod.bme.hu