Affiliation:
1. Astronomical Physical and Mathematical Geodesy Group , Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Bonn , Bonn , Germany
2. Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics , 119054 The Federal University of Technology Minna , Minna , Nigeria
Abstract
Abstract
Accurate geoid modelling in marine areas requires the integration of gravity data from multiple sources including shipborne gravity measurements, global geopotential models, and satellite altimetry-derived gravity data. This study aims to develop homogenized gravity data for the coastal region of Nigeria to improve geoid modelling accuracy. Residual linear drifts in the shipborne gravity dataset from the Bureau Gravimétrique International (BGI) were corrected using crossover adjustments for each survey leg. We eliminated gross errors for each survey leg by using the 2-sigma method. Outliers in the historical shipborne gravity data were identified and removed using the leave-one-out cross-validation technique, resulting in a refined shipborne gravity dataset. The refined shipborne data were compared with the gravity data predicted by DTU21GRA, SSv29.1, SGG-UGM-2, XGM2019e_2159, GECO, EIGEN-6C4, and EGM2008. Our findings show that DTU21GRA outperformed the other models in the same region when compared with shipborne gravity data. The refined shipborne gravity data were merged with the DTU21GRA data using Least-Squares Collocation (LSC) to create a combined gravity dataset. The results of comparison between the complete refined shipborne gravity data and DTU21GRA before and after the integration process, shows that both the mean offset and the SD values decreased from 0.43 to −0.02 mGal and 3.14 to 2.69 mGal, respectively, which reveal an improvement in the final combined data. The geoid model constructed using the combined gravity data before and after the integration process showed an improvement in the SD values, decreasing from 0.023 m to 0.016 m when evaluated against the CNES-CLS22 MDT.
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