Toward an improved orthometric height system for Canada

Geomatica

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 241-249

  Kingdon, Robert ^a   Vaníček, Petr ^a   Santos, Marcelo ^a   Ellmann, Artu ^a   Tenzer, Robert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; GRAVITATION; INTEGRATION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

CANADA; HELMERT METHOD; ORTHOMETRIC HEIGHT SYSTEM;

GEODESY;

CORRECTION; GEODESY; HEIGHT DETERMINATION;

EID: 28444494066     PISSN: 11951036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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