Short Note: Traverse Computation on the Ellipsoid Instead of on the Map Plane
This short note describes an approach to compute coordinates from a survey traverse (properly reduced to the spheroid) without the need for tedious iterative computations via the map grid. A numerical example of a ~160km traverse is used to illustrate the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed appr...
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| author | Featherstone, Will Kirby, Jonathan |
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| description | This short note describes an approach to compute coordinates from a survey traverse (properly reduced to the spheroid) without the need for tedious iterative computations via the map grid. A numerical example of a ~160km traverse is used to illustrate the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed approach. This shows a 67% improvement in efficiency, and the final coordinates agree to within 2mm ineasting and 3mm in northing with those computed using the map-grid-based approach. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-404222017-03-02T03:46:19Z Short Note: Traverse Computation on the Ellipsoid Instead of on the Map Plane Featherstone, Will Kirby, Jonathan geodetic Surveying traversing computations geodesy This short note describes an approach to compute coordinates from a survey traverse (properly reduced to the spheroid) without the need for tedious iterative computations via the map grid. A numerical example of a ~160km traverse is used to illustrate the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed approach. This shows a 67% improvement in efficiency, and the final coordinates agree to within 2mm ineasting and 3mm in northing with those computed using the map-grid-based approach. 2002 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40422 The Institution of Surveyors, Australia Inc. restricted |
| spellingShingle | geodetic Surveying traversing computations geodesy Featherstone, Will Kirby, Jonathan Short Note: Traverse Computation on the Ellipsoid Instead of on the Map Plane |
| title | Short Note: Traverse Computation on the Ellipsoid Instead of on the Map Plane |
| title_full | Short Note: Traverse Computation on the Ellipsoid Instead of on the Map Plane |
| title_fullStr | Short Note: Traverse Computation on the Ellipsoid Instead of on the Map Plane |
| title_full_unstemmed | Short Note: Traverse Computation on the Ellipsoid Instead of on the Map Plane |
| title_short | Short Note: Traverse Computation on the Ellipsoid Instead of on the Map Plane |
| title_sort | short note: traverse computation on the ellipsoid instead of on the map plane |
| topic | geodetic Surveying traversing computations geodesy |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40422 |