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noun - the branch of geology that studies the shape of the earth and the determination of the exact position of geographical points
noun - geographical surveying
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The branch of mathematics dealing with the shape and area of the earth or large portions of it. |
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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, i.e., the analogue * of 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 (Euler 1755). * If the Earth is treated as a sphere, the geodesics are * great circles (all of which are closed) and the problems reduce to * ones in spherical trigonometry. However, Newton (1687) * showed that the effect of the rotation of the Earth results in its * resembling a slightly oblate ellipsoid and, in this case, the * equator and the meridians are the only simple * closed geodesics. Furthermore, the shortest path between two points on * the equator does not necessarily run along the equator. Finally, if the * ellipsoid is further perturbed to become a triaxial ellipsoid (with * three distinct semi-axes), only three geodesics are closed. |