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geodesics on an ellipsoid

Also known as geodesic

shortest paths on a bounded deformed sphere-like quadric surface

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spherical trigonometry

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World Geodetic System

spatial reference system

Carl Friedrich Gauss

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Henri Poincaré

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Global Positioning System

differential equation

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geographical distance

spherical trigonometry

Vincenty's formulae

geographic coordinate conversion

Kater's pendulum

Anta de Adrenunes

great-circle distance

Intrinsic metric

pole of inaccessibility

geometric phase

equal-area projection

Friedrich Robert Helmert

theorem of the three geodesics

haversine formula

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