渤海湾航空重力及其在海域大地水准面精化中的应用

近海航空重力数据在陆海大地水准面统一中起着重要作用。近3年来,利用我国首套航空重力测量系统(CHAGS)完成了渤海湾地区近20万平方千米的5′×5′格网平均重力异常数据的获取。本文首先介绍了渤海湾地区航空重力测量的概况,给出航空重力测量数据的处理要点;然后,详细讨论了航空重力测量的精度评估方法,其中针对该区域的测线布设特点,提出了"重叠格网比较法"以评估格网平均重力异常的内符合精度。结果表明,对于5′的波长分辨率,交叉点重力异常不符值在抗差后的中误差约为1.5 mGal,重叠格网法获得的5′×5′格网平均重力异常的中误差约为1.6 mGal;5′×5′格网重力异常与卫星测高和船测重力的比较精度优于3.0mGal;由航空重力测量获得的1°×1°格网平均重力异常与GOCE卫星重力位模型的计算值相比较,其系统性差异小于0.5 mGal、中误差约为2.7 mGal。利用航空重力数据后,渤海湾区域大地水准面与16个GPS水准点的比较精度由EGM2008模型的约23 cm提高到约12 cm。     

航空重力测量数学模型及其测量精度分析

基于数学和分析力学角度分别推导了航空矢量重力测量的数学模型,得到了一致的模型公式;给出了矢量模型的3个分量形式,其中垂直方向的分量就是标量重力测量的数学模型;简要介绍了我国研制成功的航空标量重力测量系统CHAGS的数据处理的过程,分析了标量重力测量中测线交叉点和重复测线的重力异常的精度;根据实测数据计算的结果表明:测线交叉点重力异常不符值的标准差约为5×10-5ms-2左右,重复测线的内符合精度优于5×10-5ms-2,达到了预期的要求。     

航空重力测量数学模型及其测量精度分析

基于数学和分析力学角度分别推导了航空矢量重力测量的数学模型,得到了一致的模型公式;给出了矢量模型的3个分量形式,其中垂直方向的分量就是标量重力测量的数学模型;简要介绍了我国研制成功的航空标量重力测量系统CHAGS的数据处理的过程,分析了标量重力测量中测线交叉点和重复测线的重力异常的精度;根据实测数据计算的结果表明:测线交叉点重力异常不符值的标准差约为5×10-5ms-2左右,重复测线的内符合精度优于5×10-5ms-2,达到了预期的要求.     

平原地区航空重力测量的精度分析

为检验我国首套航空重力测量系统(CHAGS)在平原地区的测量精度以及验证其在严寒气候条件下的作业性能,2003年11月以国产某新型航测机为载体在我国东北某地区进行试验。概述试验情况,介绍航空重力测量数据处理方法。试验结果表明,CHAGS在严寒气候条件下工作稳定、性能可靠,半波长分辨率为9km时,交叉点重力异常不符值的标准差为2.0mGal,5′×5′格网平均重力异常的外部精度为1.7mGal。     

航空重力向上延拓的外部精度评估

分别采用基于梯度、基于泊松积分和基于快速傅里叶变换（FFT）的地面重力向上延拓方案,并提出交叉检验方法估计地面重力数据误差及其空中误差传播,对毛乌素测区GT-2A航空重力测量系统采集的空中测线数据进行外符合精度评价。对比结果表明：地面重力格网插值误差和代表性误差对空中点的影响达到0.66~0.92 mGal（1 Gal=1×10^-2 m/s²）,航空重力数据误差估计必须扣除这一影响;基于泊松积分和基于FFT的地面重力向上延拓方法能够客观评价航空重力观测值的外符合精度,二者表现相当;扣除地面重力误差影响后,在包含残余边界效应的情况下,毛乌素测区GT-2A航空重力空中测线重力扰动的外符合精度优于1.42 mGal。     

基于矩谐分析的航空重力向下延拓

提出基于矩谐分析的航空重力向下延拓方法,以重力扰动作为基本观测值,给出基于矩谐分析的向下延拓模型和算法。利用EGM2008重力位模型设计模拟数值试验,对比研究矩谐分析、直接法和基于广义岭估计的逆泊松积分法,分别采用这3种方法将飞行高度处含高斯白噪声的2.5′×2.5′重力扰动向下延拓至大地水准面,与真实值作外部检验。数值比较结果表明:矩谐分析在延拓精度、稳定性和边界效应等方面都要优于直接法和基于广义岭估计的逆泊松积分法,能取得良好的向下延拓效果。     

点质量模型在航空重力数据向下延拓中的应用

研究探讨了基于逐级余差思想的分层点质量模型在航空重力数据向下延拓中的应用,首先给出其基本原理,然后对澳大利亚某区域实测航空重力测量数据进行了向下延拓实验,并分析了分层方案的选择、"背景场"的建立与否和地面重力数据的选取对实验结果的影响以及采用点质量模型向下延拓的精度,给出了在地面重力基础数据缺乏与否的情况下建立点质量模型的具体建议。实验结果表明,点质量模型可以有效进行航空重力数据的向下延拓,实验区2'×2'分辨率的数据延拓精度可达±4.8×10-5m.s-2。     

用谱分布法确定航空重力测量数据分辨率

根据重力异常在不同高度上的谱信息分布 ,给出了不同高度测定不同分辨率重力异常时航空重力测量系统应达到的精度 ;从系统误差源综合分析得出 ,当前航空重力测量系统的测量精度约为± 3× 1 0 - 5ms- 2 ;最后给出了航空重力测量系统能可靠地测定分辨率 1 0′、条件较好时分辨率 5′的重力异常的结论。     

利用GPS和数字滤波技术确定航空重力测量中的垂直加速度

航空重力测量数据主要含有两类扰动加速度,一是可用解析式表示的有规则影响,如厄特弗斯改正,另一类是与载体非规则运动有关的非规则影响,主要指垂直扰动加速度.通常有规则影响能精确求出,困难在于精确确定非规则的垂直加速度.目前常用GPS和数字滤波技术相结合来确定垂直加速度.本文概述了这种方法的基本原理,讨论了航空重力测量中有限冲激响应(FIR)低通滤波器设计参数的确定,并设计了实用的FIR低通滤波器,实测数据计算结果表明,利用该滤波器确定垂直加速度的精度为±1×10-5～2×10-5 m/s2.     

空中重力异常代表误差在空域和频域的比较分析

在空域,利用严密的向上延拓公式将地面重力数据上延至空中不同高度,而后与相应的地面重力数据比较从而得到不同高度的代表误差.在频域,构建了新的代表误差模型,计算了不同高度、不同分辨率下的代表误差.实际算例表明,在空域,对于地形平坦区域,在1 km高度以下,5'空中重力数据直接代表地面重力数据的误差小于1×10-5 m/s2...     

顾及地形效应的重力向下延拓模型分析与检验

向下延拓是航空重力测量数据实际应用中必不可少的技术环节。向下延拓属于不适定反问题,其解算过程具有较大的不确定性,故该问题一直是大地测量领域国内外学者的研究热点。本文深入分析研究了当前国内外最具代表性的3种向下延拓计算模型的技术特点和适用条件,提出了应用超高阶位模型、局部地形改正和移去—恢复技术顾及地形效应,以及位场延拓结果球面化曲面的工程化方法,重点探讨了计算模型的稳定性及数据观测误差对延拓计算结果的影响。通过理论分析、数值仿真和实测数据计算等手段,定量评估了不同向下延拓模型的解算精度及其可靠性。其主要结论是:传统逆Poisson积分模型解严重受制于输入数据观测噪声的干扰,在现有作业条件下,该模型至多只能用于1km以下高度的延拓解算;频谱截断积分和位模型加地改两种延拓新模型具有良好的计算稳定性,完全适用于2′分辨率和5km飞行高度条件下的航空重力测量数据向下延拓解算,其延拓计算精度可达2×10~(-5) m/s~2,可满足各方面实际应用需求。     

航空重力测量数据向下延拓的改进Poisson积分迭代法

目前,航空重力测量是快速获取陆地和近海区域高精度、高分辨率重力场信息的非常有效的技术手段,向下延拓则是其数据处理中的关键环节,直接影响到测量结果的进一步应用。本文在对传统最小二乘法、改进最小二乘法、Tikhonov正则化法等延拓模型进行数值分析的基础上,根据调和函数的基本特性,提出并建立了Poisson积分迭代法和改进Poisson积分迭代法延拓模型。实测航空和地面重力测量数据的试验结果表明,本文新建的Poisson积分迭代法和改进Poisson积分迭代法延拓模型精度相当,比传统最小二乘法延拓模型精度提高了15.26 mGal,比改进最小二乘法延拓模型精度提高了0.21 mGal,比Tikhonov正则化法延拓模型精度略低0.13 mGal,从而证明了本文所建模型的正确性和有效性。     

南极拉斯曼丘陵重力基准的建立

2008～2009年南极夏季期间,中国第25次南极科学考察队利用A-10便携式绝对重力仪和LaCoste＆Romberg G相对重力仪在南极中山站及附近拉斯曼丘陵地区建立了高精度重力基准网。该网由3个绝对重力点和10个相对重力点组成,其绝对和相对重力测量的精度分别优于7.5×10^-8 m·s^-2、20×10^-8 m·s^-2。     

Flight test results from a strapdown airborne gravity system

In June 1995, a flight test was carried out over the Rocky Mountains to assess the accuracy of airborne gravity for geoid determination. The gravity system consisted of a strapdown inertial navigation system (INS), two GPS receivers with zero baseline on the airplane and multiple GPS master stations on the ground, and a data logging system. To the best of our knowledge, this was the first time that a strapdown INS has been used for airborne gravimetry. The test was designed to assess repeatability as well as accuracy of airborne gravimetry in a highly variable gravity field. An east-west profile of 250 km across the Rocky Mountains was chosen and four flights over the same ground track were made. The flying altitude was about 5.5km, i.e., between 2.5 and 5.0km above ground, and the average flying speed was about 430km/h. This corresponds to a spatial resolution (half wavelength of cutoff frequency) of 5.07.0km when using filter lengths between 90 and 120s. This resolution is sufficient for geoid determination, but may not satisfy other applications of airborne gravimetry. The evaluation of the internal and external accuracy is based on repeated flights and comparison with upward continued ground gravity using a detailed terrain model. Gravity results from repeated flight lines show that the standard deviation between flights is about 2mGal for a single profile and a filter length of 120s, and about 3mGal for a filter length of 90s. The standard deviation of the difference between airborne gravity upward continued ground gravity is about 3mGal for both filter lengths. A critical discussion of these results and how they relate to the different transfer functions applied, is given in the paper. Two different mathematical approaches to airborne scalar gravimetry are applied and compared, namely strapdown inertial scalar gravimetry (SISG) and rotation invariant scalar gravimetry (RISG). Results show a significantly better performance of the SISG approach for a strapdown INS of this accuracy class. Because of major differences in the error model of the two approaches, the RISG method can be used as an effective reliability check of the SISG method. A spectral analysis of the residual errors of the flight profiles indicates that a relative geoid accuracy of 23cm over distances of 200km (0.1 ppm) can be achieved by this method. Since these results present a first data analysis, it is expected that further improvements are possible as more refined modelling is applied. Received: 19 August 1996 / Accepted: 12 May 1997     

High precision vertical deflection over China marginal sea and global sea derived from multi-satellite altimeter

On the basis of gravity field model (EIGEN_CG01C), together with multi-altimeter data, the improved deflection of the vertical gridded in 2′×2′ in China marginal sea and gridded in 5′×5′ in the global sea was determined by using the weighted method of along-track least squares, and the accuracy is better than 1.2″ in China marginal sea. As for the quality of the deflection of the vertical, it meets the challenge for the gravity field of high resolution and accuracy. It shows that, compared with the shipboard gravimetry in the sea, the accuracy of the gravity anomalies computed with the marine deflection of the vertical by inverse Vening-Meinesz formula is 7.75 m·s?2.     

Downward continuation and geoid determination based on band-limited airborne gravity data

 The downward continuation of the harmonic disturbing gravity potential, derived at flight level from discrete observations of airborne gravity by the spherical Hotine integral, to the geoid is discussed. The initial-boundary-value approach, based on both the direct and inverse solution to Dirichlet's problem of potential theory, is used. Evaluation of the discretized Fredholm integral equation of the first kind and its inverse is numerically tested using synthetic airborne gravity data. Characteristics of the synthetic gravity data correspond to typical airborne data used for geoid determination today and in the foreseeable future: discrete gravity observations at a mean flight height of 2 to 6 km above mean sea level with minimum spatial resolution of 2.5 arcmin and a noise level of 1.5 mGal. Numerical results for both approaches are presented and discussed. The direct approach can successfully be used for the downward continuation of airborne potential without any numerical instabilities associated with the inverse approach. In addition to these two-step approaches, a one-step procedure is also discussed. This procedure is based on a direct relationship between gravity disturbances at flight level and the disturbing gravity potential at sea level. This procedure provided the best results in terms of accuracy, stability and numerical efficiency. As a general result, numerically stable downward continuation of airborne gravity data can be seen as another advantage of airborne gravimetry in the field of geoid determination. Received: 6 June 2001 / Accepted: 3 January 2002     

Effects of topographic–isostatic masses on gravitational functionals at the Earth’s surface and at airborne and satellite altitudes

Topographic–isostatic masses represent an important source of gravity field information, especially in the high-frequency band, even if the detailed mass-density distribution inside the topographic masses is unknown. If this information is used within a remove-restore procedure, then the instability problems in downward continuation of gravity observations from aircraft or satellite altitudes can be reduced. In this article, integral formulae are derived for determination of gravitational effects of topographic–isostatic masses on the first- and second-order derivatives of the gravitational potential for three topographic–isostatic models. The application of these formulas is useful for airborne gravimetry/gradiometry and satellite gravity gradiometry. The formulas are presented in spherical approximation by separating the 3D integration in an analytical integration in the radial direction and 2D integration over the mean sphere. Therefore, spherical volume elements can be considered as being approximated by mass-lines located at the centre of the discretization compartments (the mass of the tesseroid is condensed mathematically along its vertical axis). The errors of this approximation are investigated for the second-order derivatives of the topographic–isostatic gravitational potential in the vicinity of the Earth’s surface. The formulas are then applied to various scenarios of airborne gravimetry/gradiometry and satellite gradiometry. The components of the gravitational vector at aircraft altitudes of 4 and 10 km have been determined, as well as the gravitational tensor components at a satellite altitude of 250 km envisaged for the forthcoming GOCE (gravity field and steady-state ocean-circulation explorer) mission. The numerical computations are based on digital elevation models with a 5-arc-minute resolution for satellite gravity gradiometry and 1-arc-minute resolution for airborne gravity/gradiometry.     

顾及地形效应的地面重力向上延拓模型分析与检验

重力向上延拓在外部重力场逼近和航空重力测量数据质量评估中具有重要应用。本文深入分析研究了6种向上延拓计算模型的技术特点和适用条件,提出了应用超高阶位模型加地形改正、点质量方法结合移去-恢复技术实现“先向下后向上延拓”计算的实施策略,探讨了计算过程特别是前端向下延拓过程的稳定性问题。通过实际数值计算,定量评估了地形质量对不同高度向上延拓结果的影响,对比分析了不同向上延拓模型顾及地形效应的实际效果,同时对向上延拓模型计算精度进行了估计。在地形变化比较激烈的山区,地形质量对向上延拓结果的影响最大可达几十个mGal（10-5m·s-2）,当计算高度为10 km时,该项影响超过3 mGal;向上延拓计算模型误差（不含数据误差影响）一般不超过1 mGal;基于超高阶位模型和地形改正信息实施向下延拓过渡的布阿桑（Poisson）积分向上延拓模型,具有计算过程简便、计算结果稳定可靠等优点。