GEODETIC POSITION COMPUTATIONS
GEODETIC POSITIONCOMPUTATIONSE. J. KRAKIWSKYD. B. THOMSONFebruary 1974TECHNICAL REPORT NO. 217LECTURE NOTESNO. 39PREFACE In order to make our extensive series of lecture notes more readily available, we have scanned the old master copies and produced electronic versions in Portable Document Format. The quality of the images varies depending on the quality of the originals. The images have not been converted to searchable text. GEODETIC POSITION COMPUTATIONS Krakiwsky Thomson Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering University of New Brunswick Box 4400 Fredericton. N .B. Canada E3B5A3 February 197 4 Latest Reprinting December 1995 PREFACE The purpose of these notes is to give the theory and use of some methods of computing the GEODETIC positions of points on a reference ellipsoid and on the terrain.
of the earth, it . is used as the surfa~e upon which to perform ten-estrial geodetic· computations~ Immediate~;-be.lw we study several. geometric properties o:f an ellipsoid of rotation that are of special interest to geodesists. In particular, the radii of curvature of points on the suf'ace of the
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