An ellipsoid is a surface that can be obtained from a sphere by deforming it by means of directional scalings, or more generally, of an affine transformation...
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Latitude (redirect from Ellipsoidal-harmonic coordinates)
the angle formed between the vector perpendicular (or normal) to the ellipsoidal surface from the point, and the plane of the equator. Two levels of abstraction...
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An Earth ellipsoid or Earth spheroid is a mathematical figure approximating the Earth's form, used as a reference frame for computations in geodesy, astronomy...
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The study of geodesics on an ellipsoid arose in connection with geodesy specifically with the solution of triangulation networks. The figure of the Earth...
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In geodesy, the Hayford ellipsoid is a reference ellipsoid named after the American geodesist John Fillmore Hayford (1868–1925), which was introduced in...
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the ellipsoid method is an iterative method for minimizing convex functions over convex sets. The ellipsoid method generates a sequence of ellipsoids whose...
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Spheroid (redirect from Ellipsoid of revolution)
A spheroid, also known as an ellipsoid of revolution or rotational ellipsoid, is a quadric surface obtained by rotating an ellipse about one of its principal...
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ellipse. There are two types of ellipsoidal domes: prolate ellipsoidal domes and oblate ellipsoidal domes. A prolate ellipsoidal dome is derived by rotating...
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the motion of its inertia ellipsoid, which is rigidly fixed to the rigid body like a coordinate frame. Its inertia ellipsoid rolls, without slipping, on...
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Ellipsoidal coordinates are a three-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system ( λ , μ , ν ) {\displaystyle (\lambda ,\mu ,\nu )} that generalizes the two-dimensional...
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John ellipsoid or Löwner–John ellipsoid E(K) associated to a convex body K in n-dimensional Euclidean space Rn can refer to the n-dimensional ellipsoid of...
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Erdmessung (Central Bureau of International Geodesy), and a series of global ellipsoids of the Earth were derived (e.g., Helmert 1906, Hayford 1910 and 1924)...
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A Jacobi ellipsoid is a triaxial (i.e. scalene) ellipsoid under hydrostatic equilibrium which arises when a self-gravitating, fluid body of uniform density...
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Geodetic coordinates (redirect from Ellipsoidal height)
geodesy based on a reference ellipsoid. They include geodetic latitude (north/south) ϕ, longitude (east/west) λ, and ellipsoidal height h (also known as geodetic...
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Figure of the Earth (section Ellipsoid of revolution)
celestial body is called a reference ellipsoid. The reference ellipsoid for Earth is called an Earth ellipsoid. An ellipsoid of revolution is uniquely defined...
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Ordnance Survey National Grid (redirect from Airy ellipsoid)
Ordnance Survey maps. The Airy ellipsoid is a regional best fit for Britain; more modern mapping tends to use the GRS80 ellipsoid used by the Global Positioning...
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standards, also includes a choice of geodetic datum (including an Earth ellipsoid), as different datums will yield different latitude and longitude values...
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The Bessel ellipsoid (or Bessel 1841) is an important reference ellipsoid of geodesy. It is currently used by several countries for their national geodetic...
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Condyloid joint (redirect from Ellipsoidal joint)
A condyloid joint (also called condylar, ellipsoidal, or bicondylar) is an ovoid articular surface, or condyle that is received into an elliptical cavity...
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The manipulability ellipsoid is a concept in robotics that represents the manipulability of a robotic system in a graphical form. Here, the manipulability...
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surface. Approximating the figure of Earth by an Earth spheroid (an oblate ellipsoid), the radius ranges from a maximum (equatorial radius, denoted a) of nearly...
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Geodesy (section Geoid and reference ellipsoid)
reference ellipsoid is called geoidal undulation, and it varies globally between ±110 m based on the GRS 80 ellipsoid. A reference ellipsoid, customarily...
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Thermal ellipsoids, more formally termed atomic displacement parameters or anisotropic displacement parameters, are ellipsoids used in crystallography...
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giving us a varying ellipsoid of constant energy. This is shown in the animation as a fixed orange ellipsoid and increasing blue ellipsoid. For concreteness...
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In crystal optics, the index ellipsoid (also known as the optical indicatrix or sometimes as the dielectric ellipsoid) is a geometric construction which...
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Geodetic datum (section Earth reference ellipsoid)
planetary datums. Since the rise of the global positioning system (GPS), the ellipsoid and datum WGS 84 it uses has supplanted most others in many applications...
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In geometry, ellipsoid packing is the problem of arranging identical ellipsoid throughout three-dimensional space to fill the maximum possible fraction...
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SK-42 reference system (redirect from Krasovsky ellipsoid)
The SK-42 reference system also known as the Krasovsky 1940 ellipsoid, is a coordinate system established in the Soviet Union in 1942 as Systema koordinat...
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Planetary coordinate system (redirect from Planetary ellipsoid)
precise reference ellipsoids. For rigid-surface nearly-spherical bodies, which includes all the rocky planets and many moons, ellipsoids are defined in terms...
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Middle Ages. The figure of the Earth is more accurately described as an ellipsoid, which was realized in the early modern period. Earth is massive enough...
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