Calibration of a superconducting gravimeter with an absolute atom gravimeter

A cold atom pyramidal gravimeter with a single laser beam

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.

Improving the determination of the gravity rate of change by combining superconducting with absolute gravimeter data

This paper evaluates different data-processing methods to determine the gravity rate of change, using repeated absolute gravimeter (AG) measurements and continuous monitoring by a superconducting gravimeter (SG). Based on synthetic data representative of signals observed by SGs at various station locations, we demonstrate that the addition of SG information mitigates the error in the estimation...

Studies of Earth Dynamics with the Superconducting Gravimeter

I present investigations of Earth dynamics with the superconducting gravimeter GWR T020 at Metsähovi from 1994 to 2005. As a necessary background, the history and key technical details of the installation are given. Then a new data acquisition system (DAS) developed by the author is described. It has proved reliable and accurate. A pre-requisite for the study of weak phenomena is the removal of...

Field test of the superconducting gravimeter as a hydrologic sensor.

We report on a field test of a transportable version of a superconducting gravimeter (SG) intended for groundwater storage monitoring. The test was conducted over a 6-month period at a site adjacent to a well in the recharge zone of the karstic Edwards Aquifer, a major groundwater resource in central Texas. The purpose of the study was to assess requirements for unattended operation of the SG i...