This paper summarises the crossover adjustment of approximately 90,000-line-km of ship-track gravity observations around New Zealand. The adjustment reduced the standard deviation of the ~106 crossovers from ~2.0 mgal to ~0.3 mgal. These data were then used to assess four different grids of satellite-altimeter-derived gravity anomalies. The KMS02 altimeter grid was selected for use around New Zealand as it gave a better fit to the coastal ship-track data. Least-squares collocation was then used to 'drape' the altimetry onto the crossover-adjusted ship-tracks to counter the wellknown problems with satellite altimeter data near the coast. The precision of this merged shipaltimeter gravity dataset is estimated to be 3.5 mgal.
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Amos, M. J., Featherstone, W. E., & Brett, J. (2005). Crossover adjustment of new zealand marine gravity data, and comparisons with satellite altimetry and global geopotential models. International Association of Geodesy Symposia, 129, 266–271. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26932-0_46
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