Martin Vermeer, Antti Rasila (Guandong Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

Map of the World

An Introduction to Mathematical Geodesy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Mathematical Geodesy refers to the calculus of observation, the validation of measurements and mathematical models, and the analysis of spatial and temporal phenomena in geosciences, i.e. about parameter estimation, testing and reliability, and about interpolation and prediction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781032177540
• ISBN-10: 1032177543
• Artikelnr.: 62574816

Autorenporträt

Martin Vermeer is professor of geodesy in the Department of the Built Environment, Aalto University, Finland. Antti Rasila is associate professor of mathematics at Guangdong Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Guangdong, China.

Inhaltsangabe

1. A Brief History of Mapping. 2. Popular Conformal Map Projections. 3. The
Complex Plane and Conformal Mappings. 4. Complex Analysis. 5. Conformal
Mappings. 6. Transversal Mercator Projections. 7. Sperical Trigonometry. 8.
The Geometry of the Ellipsoid of Revolution. 9. Three-dimensional
Co-ordinates and Transformations. 10. Co-ordinate Reference Systems. 11.
Co-ordinates of Heaven and Earth. 12. The Orbital Motion of Satellites. 13.
The Surface Theory of Gauss. 14. Riemann Surfaces and Charts. 15. Map
Projections in the Light of Surface Theory. 16. Appendices