Handbook of Mathematical Geodesy: Functional Analytic and Potential Theoretic Methods

Introduction.- Gauss as Scientific Mediator between Mathematics and Geodesy from the Past to the Present .- An Overview on Tools from Functional Analysis.- Operator-Theoretic and Regularization Approaches to Ill-Posed Problems.- Geodetic Observables and Their Mathematical Treatment in Multiscale Framework.- The Analysis of Geodetic Boundary Value Problem: State and Perspectives.- Oblique Stochastic Boundary Value Problem.- About the Importance of the Runge-Walsh Concept for Gravitational Field Determination.- Geomathematical Advances in Satellite Gravity Gradiometry.- Parameter Choices for Fast Harmonic Spline Approximation.- Gravimetry as an Ill-Posed Problem in Mathematical Geodesy.- Gravimetry and Exploration.- On the Non-Uniqueness of Gravitational and Magnetic Field Data Inversion.- Spherical Harmonics Based Special Function Systems and Constructive Approximation Methods.- Spherical Potential Theory: Tools and Applications.- A combination of Downward Continuation and Local Approximation for Harmonic Potentials.- Joint Inversion of Multiple Observation.