(geodesy)
81Thaddeus Vincenty — (born Tadeusz Szpila 27 October 1920 in Grodzisko, Lwów Voivodship, Poland; died 6 March 2002 in Washington Grove, Maryland, U.S.) was a Polish American geodesist who worked with the U.S. Air Force and later the National Geodetic Survey to adapt… …
82Karl Ramsayer — (* 1911 Germany, † 1982 near Stuttgart) was a german geodesist and is well known as one of the most important scientists in geodetic astronomy and in electronicnavigation.In the fifties Ramsayer became professor at the Geodetic Institute of the… …
83Bessel ellipsoid — The Bessel ellipsoid (or Bessel 1841) is an important reference ellipsoid of geodesy. It is currently used by several national surveys of Europe and on other continents, but will be replaced in the next decades by modern ellipsoids of satellite… …
84geoid — geoidal, adj. /jee oyd/, n. 1. an imaginary surface that coincides with mean sea level in the ocean and its extension through the continents. 2. the geometric figure formed by this surface, an ellipsoid flattened at the poles. [1880 85; < Gk… …
85Ordnance Survey National Grid — For the electricity network, see National Grid (Great Britain). Geodesy Fundamentals …
86Space science — is an all encompassing term that describes all of the various science fields that are concerned with the study of the Universe, generally also meaning excluding the Earth and outside of the Earth s atmosphere . Originally, all of these fields… …
87Geoid — The geoid is that equipotential surface which would coincide exactly with the mean ocean surface of the Earth, if the oceans were in equilibrium, at rest, and extended through the continents (such as with very narrow canals). According to C.F.… …
88Reino Antero Hirvonen — (1908 ndash; 1989) was a famous Finnish physical geodesist, also well known forcontributions in mathematical and astronomical geodesy.He worked at first at the Finnish Geodetic Institute under V.A. Heiskanen on gravimetric geoid determination. In …
89William Roy — Infobox Scientist name = William Roy box width = birth date = 4 May 1726 birth place = Milton Head, Carluke Parish, Scotland death date=death date and age|1790|7|1|1726|5|4|mf=y death place = London, England nationality = British (Scottish) field …
90Helmert-Wolf blocking — The Helmert Wolf blockingfn|1 (HWB) is a least squares solution [http://fkf.net/Wolf.gifmethod] for a sparse [http://fkf.net/equations.gifcanonical block angular] (CBA) system of linear equations. Friedrich Robert Helmert (1843 1917) reported on… …
