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6 unusual facts about Geodesy


Alwyn Robbins

His scientific achievements were recognised by the International Association of Geodesy which elected him Secretary of Section (Control Surveys) of the Association, and President of the Special Study Group on Geodetic Astronomy.

Robbins wrote a number of important papers and held several appointments in committees of the International Association of Geodesy.

Robbins’ scientific publications covered a wide field in Geodesy and Photogrammetry, with outstanding contributions to knowledge in Geodetic Astronomy and the design and development of the Chronochord (printing crystal clock).

Anne Beadell Highway

The road was constructed to provide access for a series of surveys adding to the overall geodetic survey of unexplored parts of Australia.

School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University

In 1993, the department of Geodesy and Engineering Survey was merged into the university and renamed it as School of Geoscience and Surveying Engineering of the university.

Volker Wieker

He studied Geodesy at the Bundeswehr University of Munich and served as an officer in an armored artillery battalion in Wildeshausen.


29250 Helmutmoritz

It is named for Helmut Moritz, an Austrian professor of physical geodesy and member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

August Eigruber

Born in Steyr, Austria, after finishing middle school, Eigruber underwent training in geodesy and fine mechanics at the Austrian Federal Teaching Institution for Iron- and Steelworking.

Citadel of Arbil

As part of this project, geodetic measurements of the citadel were taken and these were combined with satellite imagery, regular photographic imagery and aerial photographs to create a map and digital 3D model of the citadel mound and the houses on top of it.

Cracovian

In astronomical and geodetic calculations, Cracovians are a clerical convenience introduced in the 1930s by Tadeusz Banachiewicz for solving systems of linear equations by hand.

Data

In one sense, datum is a count noun with the plural datums (see usage in datum article) that can be used with cardinal numbers (e.g. "80 datums"); data (originally a Latin plural) is not used like a normal count noun with cardinal numbers and can be plural with such plural determiners as these and many or as a singular abstract mass noun with a verb in the singular form.

Donnellan Glacier

The glacier was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2006 after Andrea Donnellan of the Satellite Geodesy and Geodynamics Systems Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, who was involved from the mid-1990s in research projects involving the use of GPS in studies of earth crustal deformation in Southern California and also in Antarctica.

Josep Domènech i Estapà

He graduated in 1881, and became professor of geodesy (1888) and descriptive geometry (1895) at the University of Barcelona, and member of the Acadèmia de Ciències i Arts (1883), of which he subsequently became president(1914).

Karl Ramsayer

Ramsayer was honoured by several academic prizes and made an honorary doctor; in 1982 he got the most important prize in Austrian geodesy, the Friedrich Hopfner medal.

National Tidal and Sea Level Facility

The NTSLF comprises the UK National Tide Gauge Network, geodetic networks, and gauges in the British Dependent Territories of the South Atlantic and Gibraltar.

New Mexico meridian

The New Mexico meridian intersects the principal baseline, i.e. the initial point, above the Rio Grande del Norte, about ten miles (16 km) below the mouth of the Puerco River, on Black Butte just southeast of the village of San Acacia, New Mexico.

Normalhöhennull

The reference height is a geodetic, fixed point on the New Church of St. Alexander at Wallenhorst in the German state of Lower Saxony.

SK-42 reference system

Borodko, Alexander, Topographic and geodetic provisions of the Russian Federation frontier delimitation and demarcation, Federal Agency of Geodesy and Cartography, International Symposium on Land and River Boundaries Demarcation and Maintenance in Support of Borderland Development, Bangkok, Thailand, 6–11 November 2006

Smøla

Scientists of the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformationtechnique of the Technical University of Berlin were testing the antique maps of Ptolemy and recognized a pattern of calculation mistakes that occurred when one tried to convert the old coordinates from Ptolemy into modern cartographical maps.


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