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Recently, gravity has been highlighted as a crucial constraint for state estimation to alleviate potential vertical drift. Existing online gravity estimation methods rely on pose estimation combined with IMU measurements, which is…

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Mapping the Earth's gravity field from space offers valuable insights into climate change, hydro- and biosphere evolution, and seismic activity. Current satellite gravimetry missions have demonstrated the utility of gravity data in…

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Accurate measurement of gravitational shear from images of distant galaxies is one of the most direct ways of studying the distribution of mass in the universe. We describe an implementation of a technique that is based on the shapelets…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Konrad Kuijken

Frequency-domain expressions are found for gradiometer and satellite-to-satellite tracking measurements of a point source on the surface of the Earth. The maximum signal-to-noise ratio as a function of noise in the measurement apparatus is…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Robert Spero

Atmospheric gravity waves occur in the Earths atmosphere caused by an interplay between gravity and buoyancy forces. These waves have profound impacts on various aspects of the atmosphere, including the patterns of precipitation, cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Seraj Al Mahmud Mostafa , Omar Faruque , Chenxi Wang , Jia Yue , Sanjay Purushotham , Jianwu Wang

A satellite image is a remotely sensed image data, where each pixel represents a specific location on earth. The pixel value recorded is the reflection radiation from the earth's surface at that location. Multispectral images are those that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Purbarag Pathak Choudhury , Ujjal Kr Dutta , Dhruba Kr Bhattacharyya

We demonstrate that it is possible to test models of gravity, such as Palatini $f(R)$ and Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld models, using seismic data from Earth. By incorporating additional limitations on Earth's moment of inertia and mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-25 Aleksander Kozak , Aneta Wojnar

When capturing panoramas, people tend to align their cameras with the vertical axis, i.e., the direction of gravity. Moreover, modern devices, such as smartphones and tablets, are equipped with an IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Yaqing Ding , Daniel Barath , Zuzana Kukelova

Image retrieval enables an efficient search through vast amounts of satellite imagery and returns similar images to a query. Deep learning models can identify images across various semantic concepts without the need for annotations. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Benedikt Blumenstiel , Viktoria Moor , Romeo Kienzler , Thomas Brunschwiler

The direct gravimetry problem is solved by dividing each deposit body into a set of vertical adjoining bars, whereas in the inverse problem, each deposit body is modelled by a homogeneous ellipsoid of revolution (spheroid). Well-known…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-26 Valery Sizikov , Vadim Evseev

The geodetic VLBI technique is capable of measuring the Sun's gravity light deflection from distant radio sources around the whole sky. This light deflection is equivalent to the conventional gravitational delay used for the reduction of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-23 O. Titov

We investigate the utility of a constellation of four satellites in heliocentric orbit, equipped with accurate means to measure intersatellite ranges, round-trip times and phases of signals coherently retransmitted between members of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-08 Viktor T. Toth

We present the first direct measurement of the gravity-field curvature based on three conjugated atom interferometers. Three atomic clouds launched in the vertical direction are simultaneously interrogated by the same atom interferometry…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 G. Rosi , L. Cacciapuoti , F. Sorrentino , M. Menchetti , M. Prevedelli , G. M. Tino

Building upon earlier work, we explore the limits of using a configuration of satellites to measure the trace of the gravitational gradient tensor using intersatellite laser ranging and timing observables without relying on high-precision…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-01 Viktor T. Toth

Superconducting gravimeters are the most sensitive instruments to measure surface gravity changes at low frequencies. Currently, about twenty five superconducting gravimeters are operating in the world and their global network has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-30 Sachie Shiomi

In order to do relativistic gravimetry one needs to define a system of null coordinates for a given constellation of satellites. We present here three methods in order to find the null coordinates of an event in a Schwarzschild geometry. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-23 P. Delva , J. T. Olympio

The relativity of Global Positioning System (GPS) pseudorange measurements is explored within the geometrical optics approximation in the curved space-time near Earth. A space-time grid for navigation is created by the discontinuities…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Thomas B. Bahder

We report on a new test of the gravitational redshift and thus of local position invariance, an integral part of the Einstein equivalence principle, which is the foundation of general relativity and all metric theories of gravitation. We…

In the experimental tests of gravity, there have been considerable interests in the possibility of intermediate-range gravity. In this paper, we use the earth-satellite measurement of earth gravity, the lunar orbiter measurement of lunar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Guangyu Li , Haibin Zhao

In this Note, a new approach to spacecraft positioning based on GGT inversion is presented. The gravity gradient tensor is initially measured in the gradiometer reference frame (GRF) and then transformed to the Earth-Centered Earth-Fixed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-12 Pei Chen , Xiucong Sun , Chao Han