A STATIC GRAVIMETER.

Field Tests of a Portable MEMS Gravimeter

Gravimeters are used to measure density anomalies under the ground. They are applied in many different fields from volcanology to oil and gas exploration, but present commercial systems are costly and massive. A new type of gravity sensor has been developed that utilises the same fabrication methods as those used to make mobile phone accelerometers. In this study, we describe the first results ...

SGA-WZ: A New Strapdown Airborne Gravimeter

Inertial navigation systems and gravimeters are now routinely used to map the regional gravitational quantities from an aircraft with mGal accuracy and a spatial resolution of a few kilometers. However, airborne gravimeter of this kind is limited by the inaccuracy of the inertial sensor performance, the integrated navigation technique and the kinematic acceleration determination. As the GPS tec...

iSense: A Portable Ultracold-Atom-Based Gravimeter

We present iSense, a recently initiated FET project aiming to use Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to develop a platform for portable quantum sensors based on cold atoms. A prototype of backpack-size highprecision force sensor will be built to demonstrate the concept. © Selection and peer-review under responsibility of FET11 conference organizers and published by Elsevier B.V.

A cold atom pyramidal gravimeter with a single laser beam

The Superconducting Gravimeter as a Field Instrument Applied to Hydrology

We describe development of a transportable version of the Superconducting Gravimeter (SG) and its test in a field experiment to monitor storage in a karst (limestone) aquifer in central Texas. The SG is contained within two aluminum enclosures, one holding the SG in its 35 liter helium dewar, plus electronics; and the second for refrigerator and power supply. In the field test, the SG was suppo...