All posts by V. Kelly Bellis
Gravity’s Increasing Gravitas: Gravity Measurements!
Hey! You out there—heads up! NAVD88 will be DOA22… before you know it! Refinements in the ability to measure gravity and, with those refinements, the subsequent gravity surveys across much of the United States over the past 120 years have allowed scientists to continually improve the resolution of the geoid and surveyors’ ability to measure...
Gravity’s Increasing Gravitas
The importance of gravity in land surveying (part 1 of 2). Click the following links to download the author’s original PDF of this article in three PDFs (they’re large): Gravity A, Gravity B, Gravity C. Gravity’s importance in geodesy has long been recognized. Beginning with Galileo Galilei’s (1564 – 1642) gravity experiments and theories in the late 16th century,...
