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GPS Block II-F satellite in Earth orbit

Geodesyorgeodetics is the science of measuring and representing the geometry, gravity, and spatial orientation of the Earthintemporally varying 3D. It is called planetary geodesy when studying other astronomical bodies, such as planetsorcircumplanetary systems. Geodesy is an earth science as well as a discipline of applied mathematics, and many consider the study of Earth's shape and gravity to be central to the science.

Geodynamical phenomena, including crustal motion, tides, and polar motion, can be studied by designing global and national control networks, applying space geodesy and terrestrial geodetic techniques, and relying on datums and coordinate systems. Geodetic job titles include geodesist and geodetic surveyor. (Full article...)

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Image 2A relative gravimeter (from Geodesy)

Image 3An artist's rendering of the protoplanetary disk (from Earth's rotation)

Image 4Surveyor using a total station (from Geomatics)

Image 5Navigation device, Apollo program (from Geodesy)

Image 6Topographic map of Easter Island (from Cartography)

Image 7On a prograde planet like Earth, the stellar day is shorter than the solar day. At time 1, the Sun and a certain distant star are both overhead. At time 2, the planet has rotated 360 degrees and the distant star is overhead again but the Sun is not (1→2 = one stellar day). It is not until a little later, at time 3, that the Sun is overhead again (1→3 = one solar day). (from Earth's rotation)

Image 8The cartographic process (from Cartography)

Image 92D grid for elliptical coordinates (from Geodesy)

Image 10Plot of latitude versus tangential speed. The dashed line shows the Kennedy Space Center example. The dot-dash line denotes typical airliner cruise speed. (from Earth's rotation)

Image 11Visual fix by three bearings plotted on a nautical chart (from Geopositioning)

Image 12Europa reginainSebastian Münster's "Cosmographia", 1570 (from Cartography)

Image 13A medieval depiction of the Ecumene (1482, Johannes Schnitzer, engraver), constructed after the coordinates in Ptolemy's Geography and using his second map projection. The translation into Latin and dissemination of Geography in Europe, in the beginning of the 15th century, marked the rebirth of scientific cartography, after more than a millennium of stagnation. (from Cartography)

Image 14Datum shift between NAD27 and NAD83, in metres (from Geodesy)

Image 15Gravity measurement devices, pendulum (left) and absolute gravimeter (right) (from Geodesy)

Image 16Principles of geolocation using GPS (from Geopositioning)

Image 17Ellipsoid - a mathematical representation of the Earth. When mapping in geodetic coordinates, a latitude circle forms a truncated cone. (from Geodesy)

Image 18Starry circles arc around the south celestial pole, seen overhead at ESO's La Silla Observatory. (from Earth's rotation)

Image 19The Bedolina Map and its tracing, 6th–4th century BCE (from Cartography)

Image 20A modern instrument for geodetic measurements using satellites (from Geodesy)

Image 21Geodetic control mark (from Geodesy)

Image 22Illustrated map (from Cartography)

Image 23Equatorial (a), polar (b) and mean Earth radii as defined in the 1984 World Geodetic System (from Geodesy)

Image 24Gravity at different internal layers of Earth (1 = continental crust, 2 = oceanic crust, 3 = upper mantle, 4 = lower mantle, 5+6 = core, A = crust-mantle boundary) (from Gravity of Earth)

Image 25A 14th-century Byzantine map of the British Isles from a manuscript of Ptolemy's Geography, using Greek numerals for its graticule: 52–63°N of the equator and 6–33°E from Ptolemy's Prime Meridian at the Fortunate Isles. (from Cartography)

Image 26A simulated history of Earth's day length, depicting a resonant-stabilizing event throughout the Precambrian era (from Earth's rotation)

Image 27Copy (1472) of St. Isidore's TO map of the world. (from Cartography)

Image 28Relief map Sierra Nevada (from Cartography)

Image 29Valcamonica rock art (I), Paspardo r. 29, topographic composition, 4th millennium BCE (from Cartography)

Image 30Global plate tectonic movement using GPS (from Geodesy)

Image 31Earth's gravity measured by NASA GRACE mission, showing deviations from the theoretical gravity of an idealized, smooth Earth, the so-called Earth ellipsoid. Red shows the areas where gravity is stronger than the smooth, standard value, and blue reveals areas where gravity is weaker (Animated version). (from Gravity of Earth)

Image 32Height measurement using satellite altimetry (from Geodesy)

Image 33The Tabula Rogeriana, drawn by Muhammad al-Idrisi for Roger II of Sicily in 1154. South is at the top. (from Cartography)

Image 34Global gravity anomaly animation over oceans from the NASA's GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) (from Geodesy)

Image 35Initial acquisition of GPS signal in 2D (from Geodesy)

Image 36Earth's axial tilt is about 23.4°. It oscillates between 22.1° and 24.5° on a 41,000-year cycle and is currently decreasing. (from Earth's rotation)

Image 37Geoid, an approximation for the shape of the Earth; shown here with vertical exaggeration (10000 vertical scaling factor). (from Geodesy)

Image 38Axial tilt (orObliquity), rotation axis, plane of orbit, celestial equator and ecliptic. Earth is shown as viewed from the Sun; the orbit direction is counter-clockwise (to the left). (from Geodesy)

Image 39Deviation of day length from SI-based day (from Earth's rotation)

Image 40AMunich archive with lithography plates of maps of Bavaria (from Geodesy)

Image 41Mapping can be done with GPS and laser rangefinder directly in the field. Image shows mapping of forest structure (position of trees, dead wood and canopy). (from Cartography)

Image 42A plumb bob determines the local vertical direction (from Gravity of Earth)

Image 43How very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) works (from Geodesy)

Image 44This long-exposure photo of the northern night sky above the Nepali Himalayas shows the apparent paths of the stars as Earth rotates. (from Earth's rotation)

Image 45A map of recent volcanic activity and ridge spreading. The areas where NASA GRACE measured gravity to be stronger than the theoretical gravity have a strong correlation with the positions of the volcanic activity and ridge spreading. (from Gravity of Earth)

Image 46Small section of an orienteering map (from Cartography)

Image 47Earth's rotation imaged by Deep Space Climate Observatory, showing axistilt (from Earth's rotation)

Image 48A pre-Mercator nautical chart of 1571, from Portuguese cartographer Fernão Vaz Dourado (c. 1520 – c. 1580). It belongs to the so-called plane chart model, where observed latitudes and magnetic directions are plotted directly into the plane, with a constant scale, as if the Earth were a plane (Portuguese National Archives of Torre do Tombo, Lisbon). (from Cartography)

Image 49GPS Block IIA satellite orbits over the Earth. (from Geodesy)

Image 50The definition of latitude (φ) and longitude (λ) on an ellipsoid of revolution (or spheroid). The graticule spacing is 10 degrees. The latitude is defined as the angle between the normal to the ellipsoid and the equatorial plane. (from Geodesy)

Image 51Areal distortion caused by Mercator projection (from Cartography)

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