Latitude (redirect from Ellipsoidal-harmonic coordinates) the angle formed between the vector perpendicular (or normal) to the ellipsoidal surface from the point, and the plane of the equator. Two levels of abstraction... 47 KB (6,180 words) - 14:50, 26 April 2024 |
In geodesy, the Hayford ellipsoid is a reference ellipsoid named after the American geodesist John Fillmore Hayford (1868–1925), which was introduced in... 2 KB (191 words) - 19:16, 22 November 2023 |
The study of geodesics on an ellipsoid arose in connection with geodesy specifically with the solution of triangulation networks. The figure of the Earth... 73 KB (8,411 words) - 10:38, 8 May 2024 |
Spheroid (redirect from Ellipsoid of revolution) A spheroid, also known as an ellipsoid of revolution or rotational ellipsoid, is a quadric surface obtained by rotating an ellipse about one of its principal... 14 KB (1,926 words) - 16:06, 31 January 2024 |
ellipse. There are two types of ellipsoidal domes: prolate ellipsoidal domes and oblate ellipsoidal domes. A prolate ellipsoidal dome is derived by rotating... 3 KB (191 words) - 12:05, 30 July 2023 |
the ellipsoid method is an iterative method for minimizing convex functions over convex sets. The ellipsoid method generates a sequence of ellipsoids whose... 23 KB (3,656 words) - 12:23, 14 March 2024 |
Ellipsoidal coordinates are a three-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system ( λ , μ , ν ) {\displaystyle (\lambda ,\mu ,\nu )} that generalizes the two-dimensional... 7 KB (1,149 words) - 10:12, 5 October 2022 |