What is it about?
The application of the geometric method of local geoid model determination which requires the fitting of geometric surfaces to known geoid heights to enable geoid heights of new points to be interpolated involves the use of least squares technique for computation of the models' parameters. The selection of polynomial geometric surfaces depends on the size of the study area, the variation of the geoid heights and the number of measurement points. The accuracy of the geometric geoid model increases as the number of observation points approximates the number of geometric surface terms. But in most cases, the number of observation points is not considered. To this effect, this paper presents the relationship between geometric surfaces terms and observation points numbers and effect in the accuracy of geometric geoid models. A total of 23 points of known local gravimetric geoid heights were used. Two polynomial geometric (third and fifth degrees) surfaces were fitted to the geoid heights at various observation point numbers and compared to determine the relationship between the number of model terms and that of observation points and effect in the accuracy of the models. Least squares adjustment technique was applied to obtain the model parameters. The differences between the models and the known geoid heights of the points were computed and used to obtain the RMSEs as well as the accuracy of the models. The obtained results showed that the accuracy of the polynomial geometric geoid models tends to the highest as the number of measurement points approximates the number of the model terms and in a unique solution where the number of observation points is equal to the number of the polynomial geometric model terms, the model accuracy is highest. The paper recommends that the geometric method of local geoid model determination should be strictly applied in small areas. Where the method will be applied in considerable large areas, higher degrees polynomial geometric surfaces with a larger number of terms approximating the number of observation points should be applied. This will enable a proper fit of the polynomial surface to the known geoid heights, as well as high accuracy to be obtained.
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Why is it important?
The study has shown that in selecting polynomial geometric surface to be fitted to a set of local geoid heights, the number of points used should be taken into account.
Perspectives
In most cases, when selecting geometric interpolation surface, the number of points is not put into consideration. But it (the number of points used) has a relationship with the accuracy of the geoid model to be determined. It is to be noted that the accuracy of the geoid tends to the highest as the number of points approximates the number of the interpolation surface terms.
DR. ETEJE SYLVESTER OKIEMUTE
Nnamdi Azikiwe University
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This page is a summary of: Relationship between Polynomial Geometric Surfaces Terms and Observation Points Numbers and Effect in the Accuracy of Geometric Geoid Models, International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology, January 2019, AI Publications,
DOI: 10.22161/ijeab.4444.
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