Testing EGM2008 on Leveling Data from Scandinavia, Adjacent Baltic Areas, and Greenland

Abstract

We tested EGM2008 on GPS/leveling data from Scandinavia and adjacent areas. EGM2008 performs at the same level as the best regional geoid model, NKG2004. However, the direct evaluation of EGM2008 is difficult in Greenland because no leveling data are available. Nevertheless, we show on 78 GPS-MSS data that EGM2008 also performs at the same level as the best regional geoid model GOCINA04. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010.