Estimating geometric parameters of highways and railways using least-squares adjustment

Survey Review

Volumn 42, Issue 318, 2010, Pages 359-374

  Tong, Xiaohua ^a   Meng, Xiaolin ^b   Ding, Keliang ^c  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE   (China)

Author keywords

Error; Geometric alignment of highway and railway track; Least Squares adjustment; Parameter estimation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GEOMETRY; GIS; GPS; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; RAILWAY; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

EID: 77956609131     PISSN: 00396265     EISSN: 17522706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/003962610X12747001420582     Document Type: Article

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