The sea-crossing levelling on Uraga Channel was carried out in September 1972 by the Geographical Survey Institute. One of the error sources of the measurement, which was made by th e way of trigonometric levelling, is the effect of the vertical deflection, that is the correction due to the geoid curvature. In this paper, the effect of the vertical deflection is discussed, standing in another point of view by Ramsayer.
The vertical deflection depends on the curvatures of the geoid and the ellipsoid, then, the curvature correction can be deduced from the vertical deflection.
When the curvature is a function of distances, the error is expressed by the formula,
dh=1/6 q′/q
2 S
3, where q is the curvature of the geoid, q' is its first derivativeq and s is the distance between observed stations. In the case of the sea-crossing levelling on Uraga Channel whose distance is about 6.7 km, the error (
dh) is estimated to be 2.8 mm. In the calculation, the vertical deflections of levelling stations were obtained by the interpolation method of the vertical deflection, using gravity anomalies data of Kanto district. It should be mentioned, however, that the error is concerned to the distance cubed (S
3), so it has serious problems in the survey of long distance amounting to 30 km, such as on Tsugaru Channel.
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