BGGS is the developer and producer of longstanding, proofed sea gravimeters. We are located in Überlingen/Germany at the Lake of Constance (Bodensee) which is linked to a long tradition in gravimeter technology. This is the brief history of German gravimeter technology and its evolution, with particular focus on marine application:
Already in the 1930s German company Askania Werke AG in Berlin, under the lead of Anton Graf, developed a spring-mass measurement system for measuring gravity (Schwere) called GS (Geophysik Schwere). Until the 1960s Askania presented several improved versions (GS1 – GS15)