Theoretical and numerical aspects of the geodetic method for determining the atmospheric refraction coefficient using simultaneous and mutual zenith observations

Journal of Surveying Engineering

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-12

  Tsoulis, Dimitrios ^a   Petrović, Svetozar ^b   Kilian, Nicole ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Geodetic surveys; Numerical analysis; Refraction; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LIGHT REFRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC REFRACTION COEFFICIENT; GEODETIC METHOD; OPTICAL RAY; ZENITH ANGLE CORRECTION;

SURVEYING;

ESTIMATION METHOD; GEODESY; NUMERICAL MODEL; REFRACTION; SIMULATION; ZENITH ANGLE;

EID: 38349119410     PISSN: 07339453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9453(2008)134:1(3)     Document Type: Article

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