Ferry Gravimetry Data from the EU FAMOS project

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Within the European Union FAMOS project, GFZ performed two gravimetry campaigns on commercial ferries in the Baltic Sea in 2017 and 2018. The nature of such “non-dedicated” campaigns is different from “dedicated” campaigns which are performed on research vessels with tracks planned according to gravity measurement needs. The non-dedicated campaigns use non-survey vessels (e.g. ferries) or survey vessels running for other purposes (e.g. hydrographic measurements). Measurements conducted on such conditions may require additional corrections besides the typical marine gravimetry corrections. We investigated two additional corrections, namely the vertical accelerations due to the motion of the ferry in the vertical direction and the dynamical effect due to the cross-coupling between horizontal and vertical acceleration components. To assess the usefulness of non-dedicated campaigns, we analysed gravity measurements collected on two commercial ferries and demonstrated that the standard processing without the above mentioned two corrections, as used in dedicated campaigns, already delivers good quality end products that fulfil the requirements of a typical marine gravimetry survey with an uncertainty of about 1 mGal for a much lower cost. Therefore, the data published in this contribution is a product of the same algorithm we use for dedicated campaign measurements. Based on our findings, we suggest that gravimetry campaigns on commercial ferries can be used to complement dedicated marine gravimetry campaigns and contribute to geodetic purposes.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.1.2.2020.001
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1080/01490419.2020.1771486
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-018-01225-7
Related Identifier http://www.famosproject.eu
Related Identifier http://www.bshc.pro/media/documents/CDWG/CDWG11+Presentation_FAMOS_Odin_final_act21-22_Agren_CDWG2019.pdf
Metadata Access http://doidb.wdc-terra.org/oaip/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:doidb.wdc-terra.org:6855
Provenance
Creator Ince, E. Sinem ORCID logo; Foerste, Christoph ORCID logo; Barthelmes, Franz ORCID logo; Pflug, Hartmut
Publisher GFZ Data Services
Publication Year 2020
Funding Reference European Commission, M2014 1027106; European Commission, M2015 1124688
Rights CC BY 4.0; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Geosciences
Spatial Coverage (8.000W, 53.500S, 26.000E, 60.500N); Along ferry lines between Travemuende and Liepaja, and Travemuende and Helsinki