VIII Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Mathematical Geodesy

Part I Lincei session.- Opening remarks for the 2013 Hotine-Marussi symposium.- Fernado Sansò laudation.- Global Reference Systems: Theory and open questions.- Part II Geodetic data analysis.- Noise analysis of continuous GPS time series of selected EPN stations to investigate variations in stability of monument types.- Improvement of Least-Squares Collocation error estimates using local GOCE Tzz signal standard deviations.- Multivariate Integer Cycle-Slip Resolution: A Single-Channel Analysis.- Theory of Earth Rotation Variations.- Variable seasonal and subseasonal oscillations in sea level anomaly data and their impact on prediction accuracy.- Permanent GPS networks in Italy: analysis of time series noise.- VADASE: state of the art and new developments of a third way to GNSS Seismology.- On the spatial resolution of homogeneous isotropic filters on the sphere.- On time-variable seasonal signals: comparison of SSA and Kalman filtering based approach.- Extensive analysis of IGS REPRO1 coordinate time series.- Part III Geopotential modeling, boundary value problems and height systems.- Determination of W0 from the GOCE measurements using the method of fundamental solutions.- Combination of GOCE gravity gradients in regional gravity field modelling using radial basis functions.- Rosborough representation in satellite gravimetry.- Combining Different Types of Gravity Observations in Regional Gravity Modeling in Spherical Radial Basis Functions.- Height Datum Unification by Means of the GBVP Approach Using Tide Gauges.- Computation of Zenith Total Delay CorrectionFields using Ground-Based GNSS.- Rigorous interpolation of atmospheric state parameters for ray-traced tropospheric delays.- Comparison of different techniques for tropospheric wet delay retrieval over South America and surrounding oceans.- Part V Gravity field mapping methodology from GRACE and future gravity missions.- The role of position information for the analysis of K-Band data - experiences from GRACE and GOCE for GRAIL gravity field recovery.- Gravity field mapping from GRACE: different approaches - same results?.- The effect of pseudo-stochastic orbit parameters on GRACE monthly gravity fields - insights from lumped coefficients.- On an iterative approach to solving the nonlinear satellite-fixed geodetic boundary-value problem.- An OpenCL implementation of ellipsoidal harmonics.- A remark on the computation of the gravitational potential of masses with linearly varying density.- The observation equation of spirit leveling in Molodensky's context.- Reference station weighting and frame optimality in minimally constrained networks.- Atmospheric loading and mass variation effects on the SLR-defined geocenter.- Part VIII Digital Terrain Modeling, Synthetic Aperture Radar and new sensors: theory and methods.- Radargrammetric Digital Surface Models Generation from High Resolution Satellite SAR Imagery: Methodology and Case Studies.- Principles and applications of polarimetric SAR tomography for the characterization of complex environments.- Merging local DTMs: methodological problems and practical solutions on heli-dem case study.- Part IX Inverse modeling, estimation theory.- Single-Epoch GNSS Array Integrity: an Analytical Study.- Global to local Moho estimate based on GOCE geopotential model and local gravity data.- An overview of adjustment methods for mixed additive and multiplicative random error models.- Cycle slip detection and correction for heading determination with low-cost GPS/ INS receivers.- Adjusting the errors-in-variables model: linearized least-squares vs. nonlinear total least-squares.- Multivariate GNSS Attitude Integrity: the Role of Affine Constraints.- Integrating geological prior information into the inverse gravimetric problem: the Bayesian approach.- Effects of Different Objective Functions in Inequality Constrained and Rank-Deficient Least-Squares Problems.