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Precise Geodetic Infrastructure - National Requirements for a Shared Resource (Paperback)
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Precise Geodetic Infrastructure - National Requirements for a Shared Resource (Paperback)
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Geodesy is the science of accurately measuring and understanding
three fundamental properties of Earth: its geometric shape, its
orientation in space, and its gravity field, as well as the changes
of these properties with time. Over the past half century, the
United States, in cooperation with international partners, has led
the development of geodetic techniques and instrumentation.
Geodetic observing systems provide a significant benefit to society
in a wide array of military, research, civil, and commercial areas,
including sea level change monitoring, autonomous navigation,
tighter low flying routes for strategic aircraft, precision
agriculture, civil surveying, earthquake monitoring, forest
structural mapping and biomass estimation, and improved floodplain
mapping. Recognizing the growing reliance of a wide range of
scientific and societal endeavors on infrastructure for precise
geodesy, and recognizing geodetic infrastructure as a shared
national resource, this book provides an independent assessment of
the benefits provided by geodetic observations and networks, as
well as a plan for the future development and support of the
infrastructure needed to meet the demand for increasingly greater
precision. Precise Geodetic Infrastructure makes a series of
focused recommendations for upgrading and improving specific
elements of the infrastructure, for enhancing the role of the
United States in international geodetic services, for evaluating
the requirements for a geodetic workforce for the coming decades,
and for providing national coordination and advocacy for the
various agencies and organizations that contribute to the geodetic
infrastructure.
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