Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica ›› 2024, Vol. 53 ›› Issue (4): 620-628.doi: 10.11947/j.AGCS.2024.20220580

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Development and practice of CHZ-Ⅱ marine gravimeter

Lintao LIU1(), Jiangang HE1, Jiangning XU2, Leijun LIU1, Jinyao GAO3, Zhongmiao SUN4, Taiqi WU5, Xinghui LIANG1, Ming HU1, Junjian LANG1, Hongyang HE2   

  1. 1.State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth's Dynamics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430077, China
    2.Naval University of Engineering, Wuhan 430033, China
    3.The Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou 310012, China
    4.Xi'an Research Institute of Surveying and Mapping, Xi'an 710054, China
    5.Naval Institute of Hydrographic Surveying and Charting, Tianjin 300061, China
  • Received:2022-10-12 Revised:2024-01-16 Published:2024-05-13
  • About author:LIU Lintao (1967—), male, PhD, researcher, majors in time-frequency analysis, marine gravimeters and underwater navigation applications. E-mail: llt@apm.ac.cn
  • Supported by:
    The National Scientific Instrument Development Fund(2011YQ120045)

Abstract:

Marine gravimeter is an important instrument to obtain high-precision and high-resolution marine gravity field, which is mainly used in resource exploration, geoid refinement, marine science research and gravity assisted inertial navigation. The existing marine gravimeters in China mainly rely on foreign imports, which not only have high prices, but also have many inconveniences in the introduction and maintenance of the instruments. With the support of the major scientific instrument projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the CHZ-Ⅱ spring type marine gravimeter with completely independent intellectual property rights has been successfully developed based on the CHZ marine gravimeter. The new gravimeter uses metal zero length spring as the measuring element, and its unique axisymmetric vertical suspension structure can overcome the cross coupling effect. The application of high-precision servo control technology and strong damping can overcome the influence of carrier disturbance and ensure that the instrument maintains measurement accuracy under different sea conditions. High precision constant temperature technology and temperature compensation technology can eliminate the influence of ambient temperature fluctuation on the measuring accuracy of the instrument. This paper introduces the working principle, system structure, features and test results of the instrument. The static test shows that its monthly drift is better than 3 mGal; the wharf mooring test shows that its dynamic accuracy reaches 0.2 mGal, which can clearly reflect the gravity variation characteristics of sea tide; the ship borne test with a total voyage of more than 50 000 nautical miles shows that the comprehensive measurement accuracy is better than 1 mGal. To sum up, the accuracy and stability of the instrument have reached the level of the same kind of instruments at home and abroad, which can replace the current imported marine gravimeter.

Key words: CHZ-Ⅱ marine gravimeter, zero-length spring, silicone oil damping, high-precision constant temperature techno-logy, gyro stabilized platform, marine gravimetry

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