Space geodesy

Short description: Science of measuring the Earth

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Space geodesy is the branch of geodesy that uses observations of objects or signals external to the Earth to measure the Earth's shape, gravity field, rotation, and position in space.[1] Its principal techniques include artificial satellites (in satellite geodesy) but also quasars (in very-long-baseline interferometry, VLBI), visible stars (in stellar triangulation), and the retroreflectors on the Moon (in lunar laser ranging, LLR).

## See also

* Astronomical geodesy

## References

1. ↑ Rummel, R. (2008). "The Interdisciplinary Role of Space Geodesy – Revisited". Journal of Geodynamics. doi:10.1016/j.jog.2009.10.006.

Geodesy

Fundamentals

* Geodesy
* Geodynamics
* Geomatics
* History

Concepts

* Geographical distance
* Geoid
* Figure of the Earth (Earth radius and Earth's circumference)
* Geodetic datum
* Geodesic
* Geographic coordinate system
* Horizontal position representation
* Latitude / Longitude
* Map projection
* Reference ellipsoid
* Satellite geodesy
* Spatial reference system
* Spatial relations

Technologies

* Global Nav. Sat. Systems (GNSSs)
* Global Pos. System (GPS)
* GLONASS (Russia)
* BeiDou (BDS) (China)
* Galileo (Europe)
* NAVIC (India)
* Quasi-Zenith Sat. Sys. (QZSS) (Japan)
* Discrete Global Grid and Geocoding

Standards (history)

|  NGVD 29|  Sea Level Datum 1929

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OSGB36|  Ordnance Survey Great Britain 1936
SK-42|  Systema Koordinat 1942 goda
ED50|  European Datum 1950
SAD69|  South American Datum 1969
GRS 80|  Geodetic Reference System 1980
ISO 6709|  Geographic point coord. 1983
NAD 83|  North American Datum 1983
WGS 84|  World Geodetic System 1984
NAVD 88|  N. American Vertical Datum 1988
ETRS89|  European Terrestrial Ref. Sys. 1989
GCJ-02|  Chinese obfuscated datum 2002
Geo URI|  Internet link to a point 2010

* International Terrestrial Reference System
* Spatial Reference System Identifier (SRID)
* Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)

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