Spherical external gravity correction

Abstract

In mountainous area, gravity survey external corrections, including terrain and Bouguer corrections, are the prerequisites for gravity data processing and interpretation. This paper presents a suite of techniques for spherical terrain and slab corrections for a finite spherical shell based on the analysis of conventional external corrections and deduces an equation for spherical terrain correction. The processing of gravity data acquired in the ZJJ area, South China shows that this technique significantly improves the accuracy of terrain corrections, and the quality of the data reaches or approaches the data acquired on plains.