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    Geodetic coordinates are a type of curvilinear orthogonal coordinate system used in geodesy based on a reference ellipsoid. They include geodetic latitude...
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    local geodetic coordinate system, local vertical, local horizontal coordinates (LVLH), or topocentric coordinates. It consists of three coordinates: one...
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    locations on Earth by means of either geodetic coordinates (and related vertical coordinates) or geocentric coordinates. Datums are crucial to any technology...
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    Geodesy (redirect from Geodetics)
    Geodesy or geodetics is the science of measuring and representing the geometry, gravity, and spatial orientation of the Earth in temporally varying 3D...
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    the needed world system to which geodetic data could be referred and compatibility established between the coordinates of widely separated sites of interest...
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  • conversion: format change of geographic coordinates, conversion of coordinate systems, or transformation to different geodetic datums. Geographic coordinate conversion...
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    R − R0; it is not to be confused for the geodetic altitude. Conversions between ECEF and geodetic coordinates (latitude and longitude) are discussed at...
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    Latitude (redirect from Geodetic Latitude)
    way: the geodetic, geocentric and parametric latitudes are used in geodetic coordinates, spherical polar coordinates and ellipsoidal coordinates respectively...
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    are used as a preferred surface on which geodetic network computations are performed and point coordinates such as latitude, longitude, and elevation...
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    A geographic coordinate system (GCS) is a spherical or geodetic coordinate system for measuring and communicating positions directly on Earth as latitude...
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    EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset (also EPSG registry) is a public registry of geodetic datums, spatial reference systems, Earth ellipsoids, coordinate transformations...
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  • Balanced ternary numeral system Curvilinear coordinates Geodetic coordinates Orthogonal basis Skew coordinates Tensor Vector field Eric W. Weisstein. "Orthogonal...
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    The Geodetic Reference System 1980 (GRS80) consists of a global reference ellipsoid and a normal gravity model. The GRS80 gravity model has been followed...
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    by geographical coordinates in terms of latitude and longitude. This distance is an element in solving the second (inverse) geodetic problem. Calculating...
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    projection is used to convert geodetic coordinates to plane coordinates on a map; it projects the datum ellipsoidal coordinates and height onto a flat surface...
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    real world coordinates of those points on the ground, the map is then said to be "in control". Having a base map and other data in geodetic control means...
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  • Thumbnail for Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system
    Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) is a map projection system for assigning coordinates to locations on the surface of the Earth. Like the traditional method...
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    deformations, coordinates and velocities of SLR stations, and other substantial geodetic data. Satellite laser ranging is a proven geodetic technique with...
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  • Thumbnail for Struve Geodetic Arc
    The Struve Geodetic Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through ten countries and over 2,820...
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    twin satellites. Reference ellipsoids are also useful for defining geodetic coordinates and mapping other planetary bodies including planets, their satellites...
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  • N-vector (redirect from Geodetic normal)
    called geodetic normal or ellipsoid normal vector) is a three-parameter non-singular representation well-suited for replacing geodetic coordinates (latitude...
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    Prime meridian (Greenwich) (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    discrepancy is that the difference between geodetic coordinates and astronomically determined coordinates everywhere remains a localized gravity effect...
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    three-dimensional space by using a distance and two angles as its three coordinates. These are the radial distance r along the line connecting the point...
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    other surface is involved in geodetic measurement: the geoid. In geodetic surveying, the computation of the geodetic coordinates of points is commonly performed...
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    reference framework for measuring geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude). Examples include the World Geodetic System and the 1927 and 1983 North American...
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  • ellipsoidal-harmonic coordinates (not to be confused with geodetic coordinates). It can also be expressed as a series expansion in terms of spherical coordinates; truncating...
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  • Thumbnail for Hellenic Geodetic Reference System 1987
    HGRS87 specifies a non-geocentric datum that is tied to the coordinates of the key geodetic station at the Dionysos Satellite Observatory (DSO) northeast...
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    consider. Rotation formalisms in three dimensions Geodetic coordinates Geodetic system Plane coordinates Gade, Kenneth (2010). "A non-singular horizontal...
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    also known as MGRS-New, which is used for WGS84 and some other modern geodetic datums, the letter for the first row – just north of the equator – is A...
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    European Terrestrial Reference System 1989 (category Geodetic datums)
    (Earth-Centered, Earth-Fixed) geodetic Cartesian reference frame, in which the Eurasian Plate as a whole is static. The coordinates and maps in Europe based...
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