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The Shortest Distance Between Two Nearly Antipodean Points on the Surface of a Spheroid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2009

R. Williams  and
J. E. Phythian
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Extract

Lambert, in his paper entitled The distance between two widely separated points on the surface of the Earth, published in 1942, having given a solution which was applicable in most cases, stated that there was a particular problem in determining the shortest distance between two nearly antipodean points on the surface of the spheroidal Earth but this was not fully analysed in that paper.

Keywords

1. Geodesy2. Voyage planning
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , January 1992 , pp. 114 - 125
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1992

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