Regional gravimetric quasi-geoid model and transformation surface to national height system for Turkey (THG-09) |
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Authors: | Ali Kiliço?lu Ahmet Direnç Hasan Yildiz Murat Bölme Bahadir Aktu? Mehmet Simav Onur Lenk |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Geodesy and Surveying, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Box 440, University Campus, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece |
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Abstract: | Turkish regional geoid models have been developed by employing a reference earth gravitational model, surface gravity observations
and digital terrain models. The gravimetric geoid models provide a ready transformation from ellipsoidal heights to the orthometric
heights through the use of GPS/leveling geoid heights determined through the national geodetic networks. The recent gravimetric
models for Turkish territory were computed depending on OSU91 (TG-91) and EGM96 (TG-03) earth gravitational models. The release
of the Earth Gravitational Model 2008 (EGM08), the collection of new surface gravity observations, the advanced satellite
altimetry-derived gravity over the sea, and the availability of the high resolution digital terrain model have encouraged
us to compute a new geoid model for Turkey. We used the Remove-Restore procedure based on EGM08 and applied Residual Terrain
Model (RTM) reduction of the surface gravity data. Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT) was then used to obtain the residual
quasigeoid from the reduced gravity. We restored the individual contributions of EGM08 and RTM to the whole quasi-geoid height
(TQG-09). Since the Helmert orthometric height system is adopted in Turkey, the quasi-geoid model (TQG-09) was then converted
to the geoid model (TG-09) by making use of Bouguer gravity anomalies and digital terrain model. After all we combined a gravimetric
geoid model with GPS/leveling geoid heights in order to obtain a hybrid geoid model (THG-09) (or a transformation surface)
to be used in GPS applications. The RMS of the post-fit residuals after the combination was found to be ± 0.95 cm, which represents
the internal precision of the final combination. And finally, we tested the hybrid geoid model with GPS/leveling data, which
were not used in the combination, to assess the external accuracy. Results show that the external accuracy of the THG-09 model
is ± 8.4 cm, a precision previously not achieved in Turkey until this study. |
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