Gravitational Fields and Data Analyses

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The course will cover fundamental and cutting-edge methods applied to Earth and planetary gravity data acquired by spacecraft, aircraft, sea, and surface gravimeters. Students will learn and practice how to represent, analyze, manipulate, and interpret gravitational data. The course will also include topics on potential field theory, geomagnetic data, pattern recognition methods, Monte Carlo methods, and computer modeling techniques. Topics covered in this course provide a foundation for a wide variety of advanced data analysis, representation, and manipulation techniques that extend beyond Earth and planetary sciences. The following courses are recommended prerequisites (and/or permission of the Professor): MATH 0090 , 0100 ; PHYS 0030 , 0040 or 0050 , 0060 or 0070 ; and, GEOL 0250 or previous programming experience in MATLAB or a high-level programming language (e.g., C, C++, Fortran, etc.).