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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kirby, J.F.
• Featherstone, W.E.

Titel

Short note: Traverse computation on the ellipsoid instead of on the map plane

Ist Teil von

• Australian surveyor, 2002-06, Vol.47 (1), p.38-42

Ort / Verlag

Taylor & Francis Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2002

Quelle

Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This short note describes an approach to compute coordinates from a survey traverse (properly reduced to the ellipsoid) without the need for tedious iterative computations via the map grid. A numerical example of a -160 km traverse is used to illustrate the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed approach. This shows a 67 % improvement in efficiency for the user, and the final coordinates agree to within 2 mm in easting and 3 mm in northing with those computed using the map-grid-based approach.