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the method of artificial neural network is used as a suitable tool for intelligent interpretation of gravity data in this paper. we have designed a hopfield neural network to estimate the gravity source depth. the designed network was tested by both synthetic and real data. as real data, this artificial neural network was used to estimate the depth of a qanat (an underground channel) located at...

As for a ship oscillating at free surface with frequency that ranges from those that are common for ship motion in waves to very high frequency associating with the impact problem, the vertical force acting on the ship for the lower limit of frequency range is dominated by gravity effect, which is usually ignored in the impact theory. As a consequence there must be a transition range in between...

A new underwater object detection method based on joint GravityGradient and Magnetic-Gradient Inversion algorithms is proposed in this paper. Magnetic gradient and gravity gradient anomalies induced by an underwater object can be measured and inversed to estimate the relative changes in distance between underwater object and underwater vehicle. The weight least squares estimation is introduced ...

gravity and magnetic data are usually processed and interpreted separately, and fully integrated results basically are created in the mind of the interpreter. data interpretation in such a manner requires an interpreter experienced both on topics concerning potential field theory and the geology of the study area. to simplify the joint interpretation of data, the automatic production of auxilia...

Gravity equations have been widely used to infer trade  ow effects of various institutional arrangements. We show that estimated gravity equations do not have a theoretical foundation. This implies both that estimation suffers from omitted variables bias and that comparative statics analysis is unfounded. We develop a method that (i) consistently and efŽ ciently estimates a theoretical gravity...

Gravity balancing is often used in industrial machines to decrease the required actuator efforts during motion. In the literature, a number of methods have been proposed for gravity balancing that include counterweights, springs, and auxiliary parallelograms that determine the center of mass. This paper describes the underlying theory of gravity balanced spatial robotic manipulators through a h...

one of the most important problems in geodesy is the unification of height datum. generally in geodesy; there are two types of height systems, the geometrical height based on ellipsoid and the physical height based on gravity-defined surface (zhang et al, 2009).local height datum is determined according to mean sea level (msl). in regarding to mismatch of mean sea level and geoid, on the one ha...

Gas hydrates are a costly problem when they plug oil and gas pipelines. The best way to determine the HFT and pressure is to measure these conditions experimentally for every gas system. Since this is not practical in terms of time and money, correlations are the other alternative tools. There are a small number of correlations for specific gravity method to predict the hydrate formation. As th...