Text Book On Geodesy And Least Squares

Author : Charles L. Crandall
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ISBN 13 : 9781330627327
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Text-Book on Geodesy and Least Squares written by Charles L. Crandall and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Text-Book on Geodesy and Least Squares: Prepared for the Use of Civil Engineering Students This book is an outgrowth of a course of lectures prepared for instruction at Cornell at a time when there was but little available in English on the subject of geodesy outside of the Coast Survey Reports. Field practice in geodetic, hydrographic, and topographic surveying was introduced as a part of the course, the work advancing from year to year continuously over the territory as in actual practice. This furnished data for reduction, computation, and mapping, so that the course has been thoroughly practical. The lecture notes have been revised from time to time and printed by one of the duplicating processes for the use of the students, as they have seemed to meet our needs better than the books which have been published on the subject. In preparing the notes for publication they have been elaborated to give them the character of a text-book, and they have been thoroughly revised in the effort to bring the work up to the best standard practice. Acknowledgment is due to many friends for data and suggestions, and especially to Mr. Ross M. Riegel, C. E., an instructor in the college, for intelligent and conscientious aid in carrying through the revision and proof-reading. The material for the work has been gradually collected from various sources, some of which have been referred to in the text. The principal are: Clarke's Geodesy, Jordan's Vermessungskunde, Chauvenet's Method of Least Squares, Wright and Hayford's Adjustment of Observations, and the Reports and data furnished from the office of the Coast Survey. For a bibliography of geodesy reference is made to Appendix No. 16 of the Coast Survey Report for 1887, prepared by Professor Gore. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.