Fernando Sansò is Professor Emeritus at the Polytechnic University of Milan, an Honorary President of the International Association of Geoscience, and a full member of the Accademia dei Lincei.  His fields of research encompass gravity field modeling and inversion, boundary value problems, statistics, generalized random fields, and GNSS theory.Daniele Sampietro is a senior researcher at Geomatics Research & Development srl. His main research activity concerns the processing and interpretation of the Earth’s gravity field at regional and local scales for resource exploration activities.

“The book contains extensive material on the theory of gravitational fields, both necessary for an initial acquaintance with the subject and useful for specialists dealing with problems of gravity exploration.” (Ilia V. Boikov, zbMATH 1506.86015, 2023)

• Introduction.- Part I: Forward Modelling of the Gravity Field.- The Vertical Gravitational Signal of Homogeneous Bodies, Bounded in the Horizon Plane.- Fourier Methods.- Part II: The Preprocessing and Processing of Gravity Data: From Observations to a Gravity Map on a Local Horizontal Plane.- The Gravity Field of Earth.- Gravity Surveying and Preprocessing.- Gravity Processing.- Part III: Inverse Theory and Applications.- Elementary Inverse Theory.- On the Mathematical Characterization of the Inverse Gravity Problem.- General Inversion Approaches.- Some Conclusions.- Part IV: Appendices.- Mathematical Auxillia.- The Theory of Random Fields and the Wiener-Kolmogorov Prediction Method.- The Tikhonov Regularization and Morozov's Discrepancy Principle.

Fernando Sansò is Professor Emeritus at the Polytechnic University of Milan, an Honorary President of the International Association of Geoscience, and a full member of the Accademia dei Lincei.  His fields of research encompass gravity field modeling and inversion, boundary value problems, statistics, generalized random fields, and GNSS theory.Daniele Sampietro is a senior researcher at Geomatics Research & Development srl. His main research activity concerns the processing and interpretation of the Earth’s gravity field at regional and local scales for resource exploration activities.

“The book contains extensive material on the theory of gravitational fields, both necessary for an initial acquaintance with the subject and useful for specialists dealing with problems of gravity exploration.” (Ilia V. Boikov, zbMATH 1506.86015, 2023)

• Introduction.- Part I: Forward Modelling of the Gravity Field.- The Vertical Gravitational Signal of Homogeneous Bodies, Bounded in the Horizon Plane.- Fourier Methods.- Part II: The Preprocessing and Processing of Gravity Data: From Observations to a Gravity Map on a Local Horizontal Plane.- The Gravity Field of Earth.- Gravity Surveying and Preprocessing.- Gravity Processing.- Part III: Inverse Theory and Applications.- Elementary Inverse Theory.- On the Mathematical Characterization of the Inverse Gravity Problem.- General Inversion Approaches.- Some Conclusions.- Part IV: Appendices.- Mathematical Auxillia.- The Theory of Random Fields and the Wiener-Kolmogorov Prediction Method.- The Tikhonov Regularization and Morozov's Discrepancy Principle.

Fernando Sansò is Professor Emeritus at the Polytechnic University of Milan, an Honorary President of the International Association of Geoscience, and a full member of the Accademia dei Lincei.  His fields of research encompass gravity field modeling and inversion, boundary value problems, statistics, generalized random fields, and GNSS theory.Daniele Sampietro is a senior researcher at Geomatics Research & Development srl. His main research activity concerns the processing and interpretation of the Earth’s gravity field at regional and local scales for resource exploration activities.

“The book contains extensive material on the theory of gravitational fields, both necessary for an initial acquaintance with the subject and useful for specialists dealing with problems of gravity exploration.” (Ilia V. Boikov, zbMATH 1506.86015, 2023)

• Introduction.- Part I: Forward Modelling of the Gravity Field.- The Vertical Gravitational Signal of Homogeneous Bodies, Bounded in the Horizon Plane.- Fourier Methods.- Part II: The Preprocessing and Processing of Gravity Data: From Observations to a Gravity Map on a Local Horizontal Plane.- The Gravity Field of Earth.- Gravity Surveying and Preprocessing.- Gravity Processing.- Part III: Inverse Theory and Applications.- Elementary Inverse Theory.- On the Mathematical Characterization of the Inverse Gravity Problem.- General Inversion Approaches.- Some Conclusions.- Part IV: Appendices.- Mathematical Auxillia.- The Theory of Random Fields and the Wiener-Kolmogorov Prediction Method.- The Tikhonov Regularization and Morozov's Discrepancy Principle.