Vincenty's formulae are two related iterative methods used in geodesy to calculate the distance between two points on the surface of a spheroid, developed...

He devised Vincenty's formulae, a geodesic calculation technique published in 1975 which is accurate to about half a millimeter. Vincenty's studies were...

Vincenty may refer to: Thaddeus Vincenty (1920-2002), Polish-American geodesist Vincenty's formulae, a fast algorithm to calculate the distance between...

accurate methods that consider the Earth's ellipticity are given by Vincenty's formulae and the other formulas in the geographical distance article. Given...

converge for points that are nearly antipodal. (For details, see Vincenty's formulae.) This defect is cured in the algorithm given by Karney, who employs...

two points on a sphere from their longitudes and latitudes, and Vincenty's formulae also known as "Vincent distance" for distance on a spheroid. Euclidean...

projection. R is the radius of the globe. See great-circle distance, the Vincenty's formulae, or Mathworld. "Gerardus Mercator". education.nationalgeographic...

usually evaluated in terms of a series expansion — see, for example, Vincenty's formulae. As defined in geodesy (and also astronomy), some basic observational...

to test for the existence of a k-mer in a sequence or sequences. Vincenty's formulae: a fast algorithm to calculate the distance between two latitude/longitude...

Map projection of the triaxial ellipsoid Meridian arc Rhumb line Vincenty's formulae Here α2 is the forward azimuth at B. Some authors calculate the back...

if one knows the latitude and longitude. Resection (orientation) Vincenty's formulae Geographic distance Triangulation in three dimensions Haversine formula...

Teller–Ulam design of thermonuclear weapons Thaddeus Vincenty (1920–2002), geodesist, devised Vincenty's formulae, a geodesic calculation technique published in...

be algebraically manipulated to the form shown above in § Computational formulae. The shape of the Earth closely resembles a flattened sphere (a spheroid)...

{\displaystyle \psi (\phi )=\operatorname {gd} ^{-1}\chi (\phi )\,.} The formulae in the previous sections give the auxiliary latitude in terms of the geodetic...