In geodesy, a map projection of the triaxial ellipsoid maps Earth or some other astronomical body modeled as a triaxial ellipsoid to the plane. Such a...
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map projection of the triaxial ellipsoid for further information. One way to classify map projections is based on the type of surface onto which the globe...
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Figure of the Earth Geographical distance Great-circle navigation Great ellipse Geodesic Geodesy Map projection Map projection of the triaxial ellipsoid Meridian...
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d\theta \,d\phi .} Ellipsoidal latitude Focaloid (shell given by two coordinate surfaces) Map projection of the triaxial ellipsoid "Ellipsoid Quadrupole Moment"...
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Planetary coordinate system (redirect from Planetary ellipsoid)
by triaxial ellipsoids; however, triaxial ellipsoids would render many computations more complicated, especially those related to map projections. Many...
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by the ellipsoid are called the principal axes, or simply axes of the ellipsoid. If the three axes have different lengths, the figure is a triaxial ellipsoid...
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ellipsoid of revolution a triaxial (or scalene) ellipsoid is used. The shape of an ellipsoid of revolution is determined by the shape parameters of that...
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Latitude (redirect from Ellipsoidal-harmonic coordinates)
ellipse, ellipsoid) appear in the study of geodesy, geophysics and map projections but they can all be expressed in terms of one or two members of the set...
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(1983). Geodesy for the Layman (Report). United States Air Force. Heiskanen, W. A. (1962). "Is the Earth a triaxial ellipsoid?". Journal of Geophysical Research...
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Earth radius (redirect from The radius of the Earth)
map projection or a geodesic polygon. Earth's volume, or that of the reference ellipsoid, is V = 4/3πa2b. Using the parameters from WGS84 ellipsoid...
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Meridian arc (redirect from Arc of the meridian)
are usually dropped. An ellipsoid that is not an ellipsoid of revolution is called a triaxial ellipsoid. Spheroid and ellipsoid are used interchangeably...
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large amount of rotational symmetry around their spin axis (see triaxial ellipsoidal longitude for a generalization). The conversion for the latitude and...
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Alexander Ross Clarke (redirect from Clarke ellipsoid)
topographic maps are still based on Clarke's 1866 ellipsoid. Moreover, many US legal documents include boundary definitions in terms of latitude and...
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Geodesic (category Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets via Module:Annotated link)
Earth, though many of the underlying principles can be applied to any ellipsoidal geometry. In the original sense, a geodesic was the shortest route between...
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Carl Friedrich Gauss (redirect from Religious views of Carl Friedrich Gauss)
the "Theoria attractionis..." (1813), Gauss provided a closed-form expression to the gravitational attraction of a homogeneous triaxial ellipsoid at...
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