QT Gravity for the Global Geodetic Reference Frame

这一合作将开启量子传感在环境科学中具有广泛应用的冒险新应用。我们的目标是改进气候科学研究人员使用的参照系，以便收集更精确的气候数据，建立更好的模型，并为政治决策提供更好的证据。正如联合国所说：“全球大地基准框架(GGRF)是基于证据的政策和决策的基础，它支撑着国家综合地理空间信息的收集和管理，并用于监测我们动态的地球。因此，GGRF具有直接的社会意义。”这是我们在这个项目中瞄准的关键元素。更详细地说，我们正在使用量子传感器的最新发展，并进行研究，使它们足够坚固，以在位于赫斯特蒙塞克斯的英国空间大地测量设施内实现世界纪录的精度。同时，我们将研究使用来自量子传感器的连续精确重力数据流的工具，以更好地理解潮汐模型和其他影响定义我们大地参照系的测量的影响。

This collaboration will open an adventurous new application for quantum sensing with wide reaching applications in the environmental sciences. We are aiming for improving the reference frame used by researchers in climate science to allow higher precision climate data to be collected, better models to be made and improved evidence for political decisions to be generated. As stated by the UN: "The Global Geodetic Reference Frame (GGRF) is the foundation for evidence-based policies and decisions, it underpins the collection and management of nationally integrated geospatial information and is used to monitor our dynamic Earth. Thus, the GGRF has direct societal relevance." This is the pivotal element we are targeting in this project.In more detail, we are using the latest developments in quantum sensors and perform research into making them sufficiently robust to achieve world-record precision inside the UK Space Geodesy Facility in Herstmonceux. In parallel we will research into the tools to use the continuous stream of precise gravity data from the quantum sensor to better understand the tide models and other effects influencing the measurements defining our geodetic reference frames.