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The geopotential value W0 can be calculated using the grid mean sea surface (GMSS) data and the global geopotential model (GGM). In this study, this GMSS data was measured with adjustment methods and 24 years of merged multi-satellite altimetry data. The data of HaiYang-2A (HY-2A) and Jason-3 were first used to calculate W0. The geopotential value W0 was determined to be 62,636,856.82 m2s\u22122 by combining the EIGEN-6C4 (European Improved Gravity Model of the Earth by New Techniques) and the GMSS data. Then, the geopotential difference approach and geodetic boundary value problem (GBVP) approach were used to determine the vertical datum parameters in this study. To compensate for the omission error of the GGM, this study utilized the remove\u2013compute\u2013restore (RCR) technique and the residual terrain model (RTM)-recovered high-frequency gravity signals. Finally, as a result of the GBVP solution, the geopotential value of the Australian Height Datum (AHD) was 62,636,851.935 m2s\u22122, and the vertical offset of the AHD relative to the global vertical datum W0 was 0.4885 m. As a result of the geopotential difference approach, the geopotential value of the Chinese Height datum was 62636861.412 m2s\u22122, and the vertical offset of the Chinese Height datum was \u22120.4592 m.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15040912","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,8]],"date-time":"2023-02-08T05:37:31Z","timestamp":1675834651000},"page":"912","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Estimation of Geopotential Value W0 for the Geoid and Local Vertical Datum Parameters"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Xinyu","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geospatial Information, Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou 450001, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shanshan","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geospatial Information, Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou 450001, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jiajia","family":"Yuan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geomatics, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan 232001, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5528-1730","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Diao","family":"Fan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geospatial Information, Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou 450001, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xuli","family":"Tan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geospatial Information, Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou 450001, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Hayden, T. 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