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Creation and development of local geoid models using geometric methods for coastal areas in Egypt

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Last updated: 09 Mar 2025

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Whereas engineering applications require orthometric heights of points, the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) offers ellipsoidal heights. To determine the orthometric heights of points, levelling measurements must be made, which is a tedious and drawn-out procedure. In this study, an artificial neural network (ANN) was used to integrate the best global geoid model in this region with the original geoid model, resulting in a local geoid model with high accuracy. The accuracy of five global geoid models (GGMs) EGM2008, GECO, XGM2019e_2159, EIGEN-6C4, and SGG-UGM-1, were tested in this research. The geoid height accuracy in the study area, as determined by EGM2008, has an RMSE of around 0.20 m. While geoid height accuracy was calculated from EIGEN-6C4, GECO and SGG-UGM-1 has an RMSE of about 0.15m ,0.15m and 0.18m, respectively. The results showed that, XGM2019e_2159 is the most commonly used global model for geoid surface modelling in the Mediterranean Sea, with a standard deviation of 14 cm. It worth noted that, there has been a significant improvement in results with ANN created local geoid models. When creating the initial local geoid models in the study area, the ANN model accuracy ranged from 0.07 to 0.042 m. However, the local geoid model created by integration between the control points was done using ANN and the XGM2019e_2159 global model is about 60% more accurate than models created with the GNSS/leveling points only, and this becomes apparent as the distance between the control points increases.

DOI

10.21608/erj.2025.323451.1109

Keywords

Global Navigation Satellite System, global geopotential models, local geoid model, GNSS-levelling, Artificial Neural Networks

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monica

Last Name

gamil

MiddleName

kamal

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Department of civil engineering, Faculty of Engineering- Mattaria, Helwan University

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monica.kamal@et5.edu.eg

City

cairo

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First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Hamdy

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Mohamed

Affiliation

Department of civil engineering, Faculty of engineering, Al-Azhar University

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ahmedhamdy.14@azhar.edu.eg

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cairo

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Ali

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El-sharkawi

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Department of civil engineering, Faculty of Engineering- Mataria, Helwan University

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alisharkawi@yahoo.com

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cairo

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First Name

Ahmad

Last Name

Wahby

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Mohamed

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Department of civil engineering, Faculty of Engineering- Mataria, Helwan University

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ahmed.wahby@qsitint.com

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cairo

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184

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2

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54116

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2025-03-01

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2024-09-29

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2025-03-01

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308

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319

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1110-5615

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3062-5408

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Engineering Research Journal

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Creation and development of local geoid models using geometric methods for coastal areas in Egypt

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09 Mar 2025