Geodetic Heights

• Main Authors: Sansò, Fernando (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Reguzzoni, Mirko (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Barzaghi, Riccardo (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Springer Geophysics,
• Subjects: Geophysics.; Civil engineering.; Physical geography.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Civil Engineering.; Physical Geography.

This book provides the necessary background of geometry, mathematics and physical geodesy, useful to a rigorous approach to geodetic heights. The concept of height seems to be intuitive and immediate, but on the contrary it requires a good deal of scientific sharpness in the definition and use. As a...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• General coordinates in R³
• The Earth gravity field: basics
• The anomalous potential and its determination
• Geodetic coordinate systems
• The relation between levelling, geodetic and other unholonomic heights
• The height datum problem.