Implementation’s Details

This code is a validated implementation in C++17 of the Polyhedral Gravity Model by Tsoulis et al.. It was created in a collaborative project between TU Munich and ESA’s Advanced Concepts Team. Please refer to the project report for extensive information about the theoretical background, related work, implementation & design decisions, application, verification, and runtime measurements of the presented code.

The implementation is based on the paper Tsoulis, D., 2012. Analytical computation of the full gravity tensor of a homogeneous arbitrarily shaped polyhedral source using line integrals. Geophysics, 77(2), pp.F1-F11. and its corresponding implementation in FORTRAN (last accessed: 12.09.2022).

Supplementary details can be found in the more recent paper TSOULIS, Dimitrios; GAVRIILIDOU, Georgia. A computational review of the line integral analytical formulation of the polyhedral gravity signal. Geophysical Prospecting, 2021, 69. Jg., Nr. 8-9, S. 1745-1760 and its corresponding implementation in MATLAB (last accessed: 28.03.2024), which is strongly based on the former implementation in FORTRAN.