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The method introduces a backward strapdown navigation algorithm into the strapdown gravimetry, which is the reverse process of forward algorithm. Compared with the forward algorithm, the backward algorithm has the same performance in the condition of no sensor error, but has different error characteristics in actual conditions. The differences of the two algorithms in the strapdown gravimetry data processing are presented by simulations, which show that the two algorithms have different performance in the horizontal attitude measurement and convergence of integrated navigation filter. On the basis of detailed analysis, the procedures of accuracy improvement method are presented. The result of this method is very promising when applying to an actual flight test carried out by a SGA-WZ02 strapdown gravimeter. After applying the proposed method, the repeatability of two gravity disturbance horizontal components were 1.83 mGal and 1.80 mGal under the resolution of 6 km, which validate the effectiveness of the method. 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