Space geodesy

Geodesy
Fundamentals
  • Geodesy
  • Geodynamics
  • Geomatics
  • History
Concepts
  • Geographical distance
  • Geoid
  • Figure of the Earth (radius and circumference)
  • Geodetic coordinates
  • Geodetic datum
  • Geodesic
  • Horizontal position representation
  • Latitude / Longitude
  • Map projection
  • Reference ellipsoid
  • Satellite geodesy
  • Spatial reference system
  • Spatial relations
  • Vertical positions
Technologies
Standards (history)
NGVD 29 Sea Level Datum 1929
OSGB36 Ordnance Survey Great Britain 1936
SK-42 Systema Koordinat 1942 goda
ED50 European Datum 1950
SAD69 South American Datum 1969
GRS 80 Geodetic Reference System 1980
ISO 6709 Geographic point coord. 1983
NAD 83 North American Datum 1983
WGS 84 World Geodetic System 1984
NAVD 88 N. American Vertical Datum 1988
ETRS89 European Terrestrial Ref. Sys. 1989
GCJ-02 Chinese obfuscated datum 2002
Geo URI Internet link to a point 2010
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Space geodesy is geodesy by means of sources external to Earth, mainly artificial satellites (in satellite geodesy) but also quasars (in very-long-baseline interferometry, VLBI), visible stars (in stellar triangulation), and the retroreflectors on the Moon (in lunar laser ranging, LLR).

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