A VARIATIONAL METHOD FOR COMPUTING POTENTIAL COEFFICIENTS USING DIFFERENT TYPES OF GRAVIMETRIC DATA

In this paper, a variational method is presented for solving the classical gravimetric, satellite gravimetric and satellite altimetric mixed type boundary value problem to obtain the potential coefficients. According to this principle, classical gravimetric data (height measured by geometric levelling or height triangulation), satellite gravimetric data (height measured by satellite geodesy technique) and satellite altimetric data can be used jointly to calculate the potential coefficients.