Geodesics on an ellipsoid
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geodesics-on-an-ellipsoid-203-9194323
title:
Geodesics on an ellipsoid
text:
The study of geodesics on an ellipsoid arose in connection with geodesy specifically with the solution of triangulation networks. The figure of the Earth is well approximated by an oblate ellipsoid, a slightly flattened sphere. A geodesic is the shortest path between two points on a curved surface, analogous to a straight line on a plane surface. The solution of a triangulation network on an ellipsoid is therefore a set of exercises in spheroidal trigonometry. If the Earth is treated as a sphere
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Shortest paths on a bounded deformed sphere-like quadric surface
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesics_on_an_ellipsoid
date created:
2012-07-21T02:52:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T18:57:28Z
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