Determination of orthometric elevations using gnss-derived height with the egm2008 geoid height model

Precise Determination of the Orthometric Height of Mt. Kilimanjaro

SUMMARY Mount Kilimanjaro, located in Tanzania, is the highest mountain in Africa. Furthermore, this dormant volcano is the highest " stand-alone " (it has an almost perfectly shaped volcano form) and " walkable " (it is not necessary to use special climbing equipment) mountain in the world. Located on the plate boundary between Somalia and Victoria tectonic blocks, Mount Kilimanjaro started to...

An Analysis on the Optimal Combination of Geoid, Orthometric and Ellipsoidal Height Data

A Matlab Geodetic Software for Processing Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Data

The ability to build three-dimensional models through technologies based on satellite navigation systems GNSS and the continuous development of new sensors, as Airborne Laser Scanning Hydrography (ALH), data acquisition methods and 3D multi-resolution representations, have contributed significantly to the digital 3D documentation, mapping, preservation and representation of landscapes and herit...

Determination of the height of destressed zone above the mined panel: An ANN model

The paper describes an artificial neural network (ANN) model to predict the height of destressed zone (HDZ) which is taken as equivalent to the combined height of caved and fractured zones above the mined panel in longwall mining. For this, the suitable datasets have been collected from the literatures and prepared for modeling. The data were used to construct a multilayer perceptron (MLP) netw...

Regional Mapping of the Geoid Using GNSS (GPS) Measurements and an Artificial Neural Network

The determination of the orthometric height from geometric leveling has practical difficulties that, despite a number of scientific and technological advances, passed a century without substantial modifications or advances. Currently, the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) has been used with reasonable success for orthometric height determination. With a sufficient number of benchmarks w...