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For this purpose, the geodetic boundary value problem (GBVP) approach based on the remove-compute-restore (RCR) technique is used to determine the vertical datum parameters in this paper. In the RCR technique, a global geopotential model (GGM) is required to remove and restore the long wavelengths of the gravity field. The satellite missions of the GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) and GOCE (Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Exploration) offer high accuracy medium\u2013long gravity filed information, but GRACE\/GOCE-based GGMs are restricted to medium\u2013long wavelengths because the maximum degree of their spherical harmonic representation is limited, which is known as an omission error. To compensate for the omission error of GRACE\/GOCE-based GGM, a weighting method is used to determine the combined GGM by combining the high-resolution EGM2008 model (Earth Gravitational Model 2008) and GRACE\/GOCE-based GGM to effectively bridge the spectral gap between satellite and terrestrial data. An additional consideration for the high-frequency gravity signals is induced by the topography, and the residual terrain model (RTM) is used to recover the omission errors effect of the combined GGM. In addition, to facilitate practical implementation of the GBVP approach, the effects of the indirect bias term, the spectral accuracy of the GGM, and the systematic levelling errors and distortions in estimations of the vertical datum parameters are investigated in this study. Finally, as a result of the GBVP solution based on the combined DIR_R6\/EGM2008 model, RTM, and residual gravity, the geopotential values of the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88), the Australian Height Datum (AHD), and the Hong Kong Principal Datum (HKPD) are estimated to be equal to 62636861.31 \u00b1 0.96, 62653852.60 \u00b1 0.95 and 62636860.55 \u00b1 0.29 m2s\u22122, respectively. The vertical offsets of NAVD88, AHD, and HKPD with respect to the global geoid are estimated as \u22120.809 \u00b1 0.090, 0.082 \u00b1 0.093, and \u22120.731 \u00b1 0.030 m, respectively.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12244137","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,17]],"date-time":"2020-12-17T15:42:47Z","timestamp":1608219767000},"page":"4137","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Estimation of Vertical Datum Parameters Using the GBVP Approach Based on the Combined Global Geopotential Models"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Panpan","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth\u2019s Dynamics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430077, China"},{"name":"University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7860-888X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lifeng","family":"Bao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth\u2019s Dynamics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430077, China"},{"name":"University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]},{"given":"Dongmei","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth\u2019s Dynamics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430077, China"},{"name":"University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6928-6797","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lin","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth\u2019s Dynamics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430077, China"},{"name":"University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]},{"given":"Qianqian","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth\u2019s Dynamics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430077, China"},{"name":"University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]},{"given":"Hui","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth\u2019s Dynamics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430077, China"},{"name":"University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]},{"given":"Zhixin","family":"Xue","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth\u2019s Dynamics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430077, China"},{"name":"University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1022-9151","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhicai","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Geomatics Center of China, Beijing 100830, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1007\/s00190-018-1131-5","article-title":"Comparison between geodetic and oceanographic approaches to estimate mean dynamic topography for vertical datum unification: Evaluation at Australian tide gauges","volume":"92","author":"Filmer","year":"2018","journal-title":"J. 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