Formulas and Tables for the Computation of Geodetic Positions on the International Ellipsoid

摘要

Although the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey is using, and expects to use, the Clarke Spheroid of 1866 for geograply purposes, it has felt the need of tables adapted to the formulas familiar to its personnel but based on the International Ellipsoid of Reference. This ellipsoid will be used by the Survey for experimental and scientific purposes and it is believed that other geodetic organizations and individual geodesists will also find use for these tables. Excellent fundamental tables for the computation of geodetic positions on the International Ellipsoid have already appeared. These are calculated to a great number of decimals and served as the basis for the present tables. The present publication includes a brief account of the International Ellipsoid followed by a number of pages explaining the uses of the tables. These pages, apart from changes obviously necessitated by the change from the Clarke Spheroid, are reproduced almost verbatim from Special Publication No. 8 of this Survey, Formulas and Tables for the Computation of Geodetic Positions, seventh edition, 1929.