Development of the geodetic coordinate system in Antarctica

• Main Authors: Shengkai, Zhang, Dongchen, E
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Polar Research Institute of China - PRIC 2012
• Subjects: Maps; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Zhongshan; Zhongshan Station; Great Wall Station; Advances in Polar Science; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Science
• Online Access: http://library.arcticportal.org/2464/; http://library.arcticportal.org/2464/1/A20120308.pdf

Defining a universal geodetic coordinate system is one of the fundamental challenges of geodesy. We present a review of the basic general coordinate systems — the space rectangular coordinate system, the geodetic coordinate system, the topocentric coordinate system, and the plane coordinate system....