Rotation Sensing with Large Ring Lasers: Applications in Geophysics and Geodesy

by Jon-Paul Wells and Ulrich Schreiber

Ring lasers are commonly used as gyroscopes for aircraft navigation and attitude control. The largest ring lasers are sensitive enough that they can be used for high resolution inertial rotation sensing of the Earth in order to detect tiny perturbations to the Earth's rotation caused by earthquakes or global mass transport. This book describes the latest advances in the development of large ring lasers for applications in geodesy and geophysics using...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108422551
• ISBN13: 9781108422550
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"