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Determination of Deflection of the Vertical Components: Implications on Terrestrial Geodetic Measurement

World Journal of Geomatics and Geosciences | Vol 1, Issue 1

Table 4. Showing the Comparison of thedeflection component obtained from GPS/Levelling method & Earth GravityModel

Comparison of the deflection of the Vertical
MethodsNorth-South ComponentEast-West ComponentDifference

ξ(″)η(″)

Geometric Method 0.0473″-0.0393″
EGM 08 Model 0.0204″-0.0345″0.0269″-0.0048″
EGM96 Model 0.0157″-0.0246″0.0316″-0.0147″
EGM 84 Model -0.0546″-0.0208″0.1019″-0.0185″