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25: 620: 609: 598:, vol. Struve Geodetic Arc, 2006 International Conference, The Struve Arc Extension in Space and Time, Haparanda and Pajala, Sweden, 13–15 August 2006, pp. 8–10 549:"Über einen Fehler in der Berechnung der französischen Gradmessung und seineh Einfluß auf die Bestimmung der Figur der Erde. Von Herrn Geh. Rath und Ritter Bessel" 423:, mean continental density, rock density and the distribution of network data. Every reference ellipsoid deviates from the worldwide data (e.g. of 137:. It is currently used by several countries for their national geodetic surveys, but will be replaced in the next decades by modern ellipsoids of 610:"Formulas and constants for the calculation of the Swiss conformal cylindrical projection and for the transformation between coordinate systems" 208:. Therefore, it is optimal for National survey networks in these regions, although its axes are about 700 m shorter than that of the mean 517: 412: 108: 42: 89: 61: 46: 68: 75: 252: 145: 648:
Conversion of Longitude and Latitude degrees into Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system coordinates
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sponsored by the United States after World War II. The Soviet Union forced its satellite states in
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The ellipsoid data published by Bessel (1841) were then the best and most modern data mapping the
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As of 2010 the Bessel ellipsoid is the geodetic system for Germany, for Austria and the
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1908 ("internat. Ell. 1924") which was also used for the European unification project
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networks were based on the Bessel ellipsoid. In the following decades the
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reduction techniques many projects used other examples such as the
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1924. All of them are influenced by geophysical effects like
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are shown, which is mainly used for modern surveys and the
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