The role of coordinate systems, coordinates and heights in horizontal datum transformations

Australian Surveyor

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 143-150

  Featherstone, Will ^a   Vanicek, Petr ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COORDINATE; GEODETIC DATUM; MAPPING METHOD;

EID: 0033498303     PISSN: 00050326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00050352.1999.10558789     Document Type: Article

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