No audio available for this content. As high-precision GNSS horizontal and vertical data becomes less expensive to collect, greater attention must be paid when reconciling vertical datasets. In 2013, ...

No audio available for this content. Part 1 of this column appeared in the June Survey Scene newsletter, Part 2 appeared in the August newsletter. Upcoming Survey Scene newsletters will carry ...

The Earth’s geoid is the shape the planet would assume if its surface were made of water. Naturally, there’s little dispute over the shape of the geoid over the oceans, where it varies by only 100 ...

Have you ever thought to use a clock to identify mineral deposits or concealed water resources within the Earth? An international team headed by astrophysicists Philippe Jetzer and Ruxandra Bondarescu ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. The best-fitting model (Fig. 2a) was found by a systematic parameter search (Supplementary Figs 1–5). The eastern hemisphere geoid ...

For years, researchers have tried to pinpoint how an area deep in the Indian Ocean with lower gravitational pull came to be. A team in India may have figured it out. The area in question is called the ...