Publication Date:
2023-08-29
Description:
As already happens, and will continue to happen ever more, most height coordinates are going to be obtained from geodetic satellite observations (GNSS) instead of levelling, due to the operational simplicity, lower cost, and sufficient accuracy. Levelling will be used for restricted areas and niche applications. Geodetic satellite observations yield geodetic heights referred to the (geocentric) geodetic reference ellipsoid. Their metric is Euclidean, geometric in nature. But geodetic heights have no practical applications because the zero height surface, i,e., reference ellipsoid, has no relation to the real world. To be practical, heights must refer to the geoid, the vertical geodetic reference surface. Geodetic heights must be transformed to practical heights by subtracting geoidal heights from them. The resulting practical heights, orthometric heights, have also Euclidean metric. Interestingly, no gravity needs be observed by the user of this approach. If other than orthometric heights are needed, then the metric must be changed. For dynamic heights and normal heights, the corresponding point metric is just a multiplication factor close to 1 that requires the knowledge of gravity. Practical heights obtained in this way are fully congruent with the terrestrial practical heights (from levelling) if the terrestrial heights are derived from levelled height differences in the rigorous way. The oral presentation will go over their characteristics and how they relate to the latest theoretical advancements and will focus on the future, leaving the quasigeoid alone, explicitly defining all practical heights, with respect to the geoid.
Language:
English
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject
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