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Absolute marine gravimetry with matter-wave interferometry.


ABSTRACT: Measuring gravity from an aircraft or a ship is essential in geodesy, geophysics, mineral and hydrocarbon exploration, and navigation. Today, only relative sensors are available for onboard gravimetry. This is a major drawback because of the calibration and drift estimation procedures which lead to important operational constraints. Atom interferometry is a promising technology to obtain onboard absolute gravimeter. But, despite high performances obtained in static condition, no precise measurements were reported in dynamic. Here, we present absolute gravity measurements from a ship with a sensor based on atom interferometry. Despite rough sea conditions, we obtained precision below 10-5?m s-2. The atom gravimeter was also compared with a commercial spring gravimeter and showed better performances. This demonstration opens the way to the next generation of inertial sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope) based on atom interferometry which should provide high-precision absolute measurements from a moving platform.

SUBMITTER: Bidel Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5809417 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Absolute marine gravimetry with matter-wave interferometry.

Bidel Y Y   Zahzam N N   Blanchard C C   Bonnin A A   Cadoret M M   Bresson A A   Rouxel D D   Lequentrec-Lalancette M F MF  

Nature communications 20180212 1


Measuring gravity from an aircraft or a ship is essential in geodesy, geophysics, mineral and hydrocarbon exploration, and navigation. Today, only relative sensors are available for onboard gravimetry. This is a major drawback because of the calibration and drift estimation procedures which lead to important operational constraints. Atom interferometry is a promising technology to obtain onboard absolute gravimeter. But, despite high performances obtained in static condition, no precise measurem  ...[more]

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