Grid, ground, and globe: Distances in the GPS era

Surveying and Land Information Systems

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 179-202

  Meyer, Thomas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

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GEOID; GPS;

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