IX Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Mathematical Geodesy: Proceedings of the Symposium in Rome, June 18 – 22, 2018

Front Matter ....Pages i-xi
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 Orbit Optimization for Future Satellite Gravity Field Missions: Influence of the Time Variable Gravity Field Models in a Genetic Algorithm Approach  (Siavash Iran Pour, Nico Sneeuw, Matthias Weigelt, Alireza Amiri-Simkooei)....Pages 3-9
 Comparison of Criteria for the Identification of Correlated Orders in GRACE Spherical Harmonic Coefficients  (Dimitrios Piretzidis, Michael G. Sideris, Dimitrios Tsoulis)....Pages 11-18
 Second- and Third-Order Derivatives of the Somigliana-Pizzetti Reference Gravity Field  (Sten Claessens)....Pages 19-23
 On the Advantage of Normal Heights  (Viktor V. Popadyev)....Pages 25-31
 Green’s Function Method Extended by Successive Approximations and Applied to Earth’s Gravity Field Recovery  (Petr Holota, Otakar Nesvadba)....Pages 33-39
 On Combining the Directional Solutions of the Gravitational Curvature Boundary-Value Problem  (Martin Pitoňák, Pavel Novák, Michal àprlák, Robert Tenzer)....Pages 41-47
Front Matter ....Pages 49-49
 Review of Reference Frame Representations for a Deformable Earth  (Zuheir Altamimi, Paul Rebischung, Xavier Collilieux, Laurent Métivier, Kristel Chanard)....Pages 51-56
 Impacts of the LARES and LARES-2 Satellite Missions on the SLR Terrestrial Reference Frame  (Rolf König, Susanne Glaser, Ignazio Ciufolini, Antonio Paolozzi)....Pages 57-65
 Permanent GNSS Network Optimization Considering TectonicMotions  (Lisa Pertusini, Giulio Tagliaferro, Rosa Pacione, Giuseppe Bianco)....Pages 67-75
Front Matter ....Pages 77-77
 Adjustment of Gauss-Helmert Models with Autoregressive and Student Errors  (Boris Kargoll, Mohammad Omidalizarandi, Hamza Alkhatib)....Pages 79-87
 How Abnormal Are the PDFs of the DIA Method: A Quality Description in the Context of GNSS  (Safoora Zaminpardaz, Peter J. G. Teunissen)....Pages 89-97
 Controlling the Bias Within Free Geodetic Networks  (Burkhard Schaffrin, Kyle Snow)....Pages 99-105
 Regularized Solutions of the Two Layers Inverse Gravimetric Problem in the Space of Bounded Variation Functions  (Martina Capponi, Daniele Sampietro, Fernando Sansò)....Pages 107-116
 Converted Total Least Squares Method and Gauss-Helmert Model with Applications to Coordinate Transformations  (Jianqing Cai, Dalu Dong, Nico Sneeuw, Yibin Yao)....Pages 117-125
 A Bayesian Nonlinear Regression Model Based on t-Distributed Errors  (Alexander Dorndorf, Boris Kargoll, Jens-André Paffenholz, Hamza Alkhatib)....Pages 127-135
 The GNSS for Meteorology (G4M) Procedure and Its Application to Four Significant Weather Events  (Lorenzo Benvenuto, Ilaria Ferrando, Bianca Federici, Domenico Sguerso)....Pages 137-145
Front Matter ....Pages 147-147
 Modeling the Gravitational Field by Using CFD Techniques  (Zhi Yin, Nico Sneeuw)....Pages 149-156
 Surface Loading of a Self-Gravitating, Laterally Heterogeneous Elastic Sphere: Preliminary Result for the 2D Case  (Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Volker Klemann, Zdeněk Martinec)....Pages 157-163
 Using Structural Risk Minimization to Determine the Optimal Complexity of B-Spline Surfaces for Modelling Correlated Point Cloud Data  (Corinna Harmening, Hans Neuner)....Pages 165-174
 On the Numerical Implementation of a Perturbation Method for Satellite Gravity Mapping  (Christopher Jekeli, Nlingi Habana)....Pages 175-180
Front Matter ....Pages 181-181
 Non-Recursive Representation of an Autoregressive Process Within the Magic Square  (Ina Loth, Boris Kargoll, Wolf-Dieter Schuh)....Pages 183-189
 A Bootstrap Approach to Testing for Time-Variability of AR Process Coefficients in Regression Time Series with t-Distributed White Noise Components  (Hamza Alkhatib, Mohammad Omidalizarandi, Boris Kargoll)....Pages 191-197
 Identification of Suspicious Data for Robust Estimation of Stochastic Processes  (Till Schubert, Jan Martin Brockmann, Wolf-Dieter Schuh)....Pages 199-207
 Quality and Distribution of Terrestrial Gravity Data for Precise Regional Geoid Modeling: A Generalized Setup  (Christian Gerlach, Vegard Ophaug, Ove Christian Dahl Omang, Martina Idžanović)....Pages 209-215
Front Matter ....Pages 217-217
 Geodesy and Mathematics: Interactions, Acquisitions, and Open Problems  (Willi Freeden, Fernando Sansò)....Pages 219-250
Back Matter ....Pages 251-256