Direct and inverse solutions with geodetic latitude in terms of longitude for rhumb line sailing

Journal of Navigation

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 549-559

  Tseng, Wei Kuo ^a   Earle, Michael A ^a   Guo, Jiunn Liang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Conformal Latitude; Rectifying Latitude; Rhumb Line (RL)

Indexed keywords

ARC LENGTH; COMPLETE SOLUTIONS; CONFORMAL LATITUDE; DIRECT SOLUTION; ELECTRONIC CHARTS; GEODETIC LATITUDE; GRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HERMITE; HIGH DEGREE OF ACCURACY; INTERPOLATION SCHEMES; INVERSE SERIES; INVERSE SOLUTION; LAGRANGE INVERSION; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; OBLATE SPHEROID; RECTIFYING LATITUDE; RHUMB LINE (RL); SYMBOLIC ALGEBRA;

ALGORITHMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; CARTOGRAPHY; DATA PROCESSING; GEODESY; GIS; INTERPOLATION; INVERSE ANALYSIS; LATITUDE;

EID: 84868261980     PISSN: 03734633     EISSN: 14697785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0373463312000148     Document Type: Article

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