Authors
Citation
Te. Wood, VERTEX LATITUDES ON ELLIPSOID GEODESICS, SIAM review, 38(4), 1996, pp. 637-644
Citations number
4
Categorie Soggetti
Mathematics,Mathematics
Journal title
ISSN journal
00361445
Volume
38
Issue
4
Year of publication
1996
Pages
637 - 644
Database
ISI
SICI code
0036-1445(1996)38:4<637:VLOEG>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
An invariant of ellipsoidal geodesics, called the Fundamental Equation
, is applied to the navigational problem of finding the extreme latitu
de on great circle (geodesic) routes. Analysis is provided to show the
kind and amount of error induced by modeling the Earth as a sphere ve
rsus the WGS-84 ellipsoid.