Speaker
Eva Hackmann
(ZARM, U Bremen)
Description
Title: General relativistic geodesy
Abstract: The intersection of General Relativity and geodesy represents a new frontier in Earth sciences. A major task of geodesy is to determine the gravity field of the Earth, e.g. to monitor mass variations. Due to recent advancements in high precision clock comparison, General Relativity introduced an entirely new measurement concept to geodesy based on the gravitational redshift. We present the basics of a genuinely general relativistic framework for geodesy, generalising the traditional (post-)Newtonian geodetic concepts. Moreover, we outline the analytical and computational tools used to explore these new exciting applications of clocks on ground and in space.
