A Matlab code to compute gravity measurements' terrain corrections in Puracé (Cauca), Colombia

"The importance of terrain corrections in gravity surveying has been known for over a century now. Starting from a good understanding of the physical laws that govern gravitational attractions in the universe, a code that computes this value from a latitude, longitude, altitude and digital elevation model has been created for the Department of Geosciences of the University of the Andes. The code was tested on the region of the volcano Puracú in the department of Cauca, Colombia and results were compared with those of commercial software and a synthetic model. With a resolution suitable for the purposes of students studying gravitational anomalies, the value of terrain corrections for two campaigns of gravity surveying in the area were computed and are presented. A graphical representation of the results show the importance of calculating all the theoretical values of gravity when trying to compute acceptable gravity anomalies." -- Tomado del Formato de Documento de Grado.

• Autores: Palacios Murillo, Nicolás Ernesto
• Tipo de recurso: Trabajo de grado de pregrado
• Fecha de publicación: 2017
• Institución: Universidad de los Andes
• Repositorio: Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/61735
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/1992/61735
• Palabra clave: Anomalías gavimétricas; Geofísica; Gravedad; Prospección geofísica; Reducción de datos
• Rights: openAccess
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/