Gravity gradiometry

Measurement of variations in Earth's gravitational field

Gravity gradiometry is the study of variations (anomalies) in the Earth's gravity field via measurements of the spatial gradient of gravitational acceleration. The gravity gradient tensor is a 3x3 tensor representing the partial derivatives, along each coordinate axis, of each of the three components of the acceleration vector, totaling 9 scalar quantities:

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