Bessel ellipsoid
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title:
Bessel ellipsoid
text:
The Bessel ellipsoid is an important reference ellipsoid of geodesy. It is currently used by several countries for their national geodetic surveys, but will be replaced in the next decades by modern ellipsoids of satellite geodesy. The Bessel ellipsoid was derived in 1841 by Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, based on several arc measurements and other data of continental geodetic networks of Europe, Russia and the British Survey of India. It is based on 10 meridian arcs and 38 precise measurements of th
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Reference ellipsoid in geodesy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessel_ellipsoid
date created:
2008-03-05T15:00:18Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T11:56:04Z
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