Absolute and Relative Gravimetry -- Adaptively Robust Kalman Filters with Applications in Navigation -- Airborne Gravity Field Determination -- Analytic Orbit Theory -- Deformation and Tectonics: Contribution of GPS Measurements to Plate Tectonics – Overview and Recent Developments -- Earth Rotation -- Equivalence of GPS Algorithms and Its Inference -- Marine Geodesy -- Satellite Laser Ranging -- Superconducting Gravimetry -- Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry.

This reference and handbook includes contributions from the world’s leading experts and describes the history, theory, development, research highlights, problems and future of the individual geodetic fields. The subjects include: Geodesy, Satellite Geodesy, Marine Geodesy, GPS / Galileo Systems, Navigation and Positioning, Aerogravimetry, Super-conducting Gravimetry, Adjustment and Filtering, Orbits Theory, Orbits Determination, Tectonics, Earth Rotation and Polar Motion, Earth Tide and Ocean Loading Tide, Satellite Altimetry, Remote Sensing, InSAR, etc.