This book aims to provide, with comprehensive detail, the fundamental theory of the Earth's global elastic deformation, as well as the associated variations of the gravity field and rotation, that the readers can thoroughly understand with little reference to other books or journal papers. Its contents belong to the essential background physics of geodesy nowadays.The noteworthy style of this book is its inclusion of ample intermediate steps of mathematical derivations and physical...

This textbook introduces physical geodesy. It treats the boundary-value theories of the discipline comprehensively, and provides insights to the theory of gravity reduction based on a spherical Earth model.This book is for students who wish to thoroughly understand the material and to expand their knowledge and skills in mathematics for more advanced study and research in this discipline. The details of mathematical derivations included are a useful asset for instructors and resear...