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  1. 1918 Geographic Center Of The [contiguous] Lower 48 States [CONUS] - Lebanon, Kansas
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    clui.org/ludb/site/geographic- <-- shared technical article
    --
    ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/GeoCente <-- shared 1959 NOAA technical article
    --
    smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ <-- shared 2015 technical article
    --
    atlasobscura.com/articles/jour <-- shared technical media article
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    In 1918, the US Coast and Geodetic Survey attempted to find the center of what was then the United States’ (lower) 48 states. Because they lacked the computing power to process the complex geometry of an irregular, 3D landmass, they placed a carefully scaled map of the 48 conterminous states onto a uniform piece of cardboard. After cutting it out, they determined the geographic center by finding the exact point at which the map balanced perfectly on a pin.
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    #spatial #mapping #USA #Lower48th #center #centre #Lebanon #Kansas #geodetic #geodesy #geography #spatialanalysis #cartography #PinAndCardboard #history #tourism #americana
    @NOAA | @USGS | @us Coast and Geodetic Survey

  2. 1918 Geographic Center Of The [contiguous] Lower 48 States [CONUS] - Lebanon, Kansas
    --
    clui.org/ludb/site/geographic- <-- shared technical article
    --
    ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/GeoCente <-- shared 1959 NOAA technical article
    --
    smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ <-- shared 2015 technical article
    --
    atlasobscura.com/articles/jour <-- shared technical media article
    --
    In 1918, the US Coast and Geodetic Survey attempted to find the center of what was then the United States’ (lower) 48 states. Because they lacked the computing power to process the complex geometry of an irregular, 3D landmass, they placed a carefully scaled map of the 48 conterminous states onto a uniform piece of cardboard. After cutting it out, they determined the geographic center by finding the exact point at which the map balanced perfectly on a pin.
    --
    #spatial #mapping #USA #Lower48th #center #centre #Lebanon #Kansas #geodetic #geodesy #geography #spatialanalysis #cartography #PinAndCardboard #history #tourism #americana
    @NOAA | @USGS | @us Coast and Geodetic Survey

  3. 1918 Geographic Center Of The [contiguous] Lower 48 States [CONUS] - Lebanon, Kansas
    --
    clui.org/ludb/site/geographic- <-- shared technical article
    --
    ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/GeoCente <-- shared 1959 NOAA technical article
    --
    smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ <-- shared 2015 technical article
    --
    atlasobscura.com/articles/jour <-- shared technical media article
    --
    In 1918, the US Coast and Geodetic Survey attempted to find the center of what was then the United States’ (lower) 48 states. Because they lacked the computing power to process the complex geometry of an irregular, 3D landmass, they placed a carefully scaled map of the 48 conterminous states onto a uniform piece of cardboard. After cutting it out, they determined the geographic center by finding the exact point at which the map balanced perfectly on a pin.
    --
    #spatial #mapping #USA #Lower48th #center #centre #Lebanon #Kansas #geodetic #geodesy #geography #spatialanalysis #cartography #PinAndCardboard #history #tourism #americana
    @NOAA | @USGS | @us Coast and Geodetic Survey

  4. 1918 Geographic Center Of The [contiguous] Lower 48 States [CONUS] - Lebanon, Kansas
    --
    clui.org/ludb/site/geographic- <-- shared technical article
    --
    ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/GeoCente <-- shared 1959 NOAA technical article
    --
    smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ <-- shared 2015 technical article
    --
    atlasobscura.com/articles/jour <-- shared technical media article
    --
    In 1918, the US Coast and Geodetic Survey attempted to find the center of what was then the United States’ (lower) 48 states. Because they lacked the computing power to process the complex geometry of an irregular, 3D landmass, they placed a carefully scaled map of the 48 conterminous states onto a uniform piece of cardboard. After cutting it out, they determined the geographic center by finding the exact point at which the map balanced perfectly on a pin.
    --
    #spatial #mapping #USA #Lower48th #center #centre #Lebanon #Kansas #geodetic #geodesy #geography #spatialanalysis #cartography #PinAndCardboard #history #tourism #americana
    @NOAA | @USGS | @us Coast and Geodetic Survey

  5. 1918 Geographic Center Of The [contiguous] Lower 48 States [CONUS] - Lebanon, Kansas
    --
    clui.org/ludb/site/geographic- <-- shared technical article
    --
    ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/GeoCente <-- shared 1959 NOAA technical article
    --
    smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ <-- shared 2015 technical article
    --
    atlasobscura.com/articles/jour <-- shared technical media article
    --
    In 1918, the US Coast and Geodetic Survey attempted to find the center of what was then the United States’ (lower) 48 states. Because they lacked the computing power to process the complex geometry of an irregular, 3D landmass, they placed a carefully scaled map of the 48 conterminous states onto a uniform piece of cardboard. After cutting it out, they determined the geographic center by finding the exact point at which the map balanced perfectly on a pin.
    --

    @NOAA | @USGS | @us Coast and Geodetic Survey

  6. Atmospheric refraction, due to the different temperature/altitude profile in the atmosphere at different times of day...makes distant mountains appear taller or shorter.

    The attached photo is a comparison of what I shot yesterday afternoon and this morning. The camera was set up within inches of the same location for both shots, and those mountains are between 50 and 120 miles away...so I'm saying that any parallax effect from camera location is essentially zero.

    I have annotated with arrows where it's easy to make a comparison of how the near and far ridge lines overlap differently in the two photos.

    This is a follow up to:
    universeodon.com/@KrajciTom/11

    Imagine the care that was needed to conduct surveys before the GPS/GNSS era:
    explorersweb.com/the-five-men-

    "The Great Theodolite built by Troughton & Simms in London stood nearly 1.5m high, had a horizontal circle one meter in diameter, and could read angles to a single second of arc. Moving it required 30 porters and sometimes elephants."

    "The reduction of Nicolson’s observations was a colossal task. Each ray from each station had to be corrected for instrumental error, for temperature and pressure, and for the curvature of the Earth. Above all, they needed to correct for atmospheric refraction, which at those distances could amount to six or seven minutes of arc and change from hour to hour."

    #Atmosphere #Refraction #Physics #Math #GIS #Datum #Survey #Geodetic #Map #Optics #Science #Parallax #Cool #NewMexico #Theodolite

  7. Atmospheric refraction, due to the different temperature/altitude profile in the atmosphere at different times of day...makes distant mountains appear taller or shorter.

    The attached photo is a comparison of what I shot yesterday afternoon and this morning. The camera was set up within inches of the same location for both shots, and those mountains are between 50 and 120 miles away...so I'm saying that any parallax effect from camera location is essentially zero.

    I have annotated with arrows where it's easy to make a comparison of how the near and far ridge lines overlap differently in the two photos.

    This is a follow up to:
    universeodon.com/@KrajciTom/11

    Imagine the care that was needed to conduct surveys before the GPS/GNSS era:
    explorersweb.com/the-five-men-

    "The Great Theodolite built by Troughton & Simms in London stood nearly 1.5m high, had a horizontal circle one meter in diameter, and could read angles to a single second of arc. Moving it required 30 porters and sometimes elephants."

    "The reduction of Nicolson’s observations was a colossal task. Each ray from each station had to be corrected for instrumental error, for temperature and pressure, and for the curvature of the Earth. Above all, they needed to correct for atmospheric refraction, which at those distances could amount to six or seven minutes of arc and change from hour to hour."

    #Atmosphere #Refraction #Physics #Math #GIS #Datum #Survey #Geodetic #Map #Optics #Science #Parallax #Cool #NewMexico #Theodolite

  8. Atmospheric refraction, due to the different temperature/altitude profile in the atmosphere at different times of day...makes distant mountains appear taller or shorter.

    The attached photo is a comparison of what I shot yesterday afternoon and this morning. The camera was set up within inches of the same location for both shots, and those mountains are between 50 and 120 miles away...so I'm saying that any parallax effect from camera location is essentially zero.

    I have annotated with arrows where it's easy to make a comparison of how the near and far ridge lines overlap differently in the two photos.

    This is a follow up to:
    universeodon.com/@KrajciTom/11

    Imagine the care that was needed to conduct surveys before the GPS/GNSS era:
    explorersweb.com/the-five-men-

    "The Great Theodolite built by Troughton & Simms in London stood nearly 1.5m high, had a horizontal circle one meter in diameter, and could read angles to a single second of arc. Moving it required 30 porters and sometimes elephants."

    "The reduction of Nicolson’s observations was a colossal task. Each ray from each station had to be corrected for instrumental error, for temperature and pressure, and for the curvature of the Earth. Above all, they needed to correct for atmospheric refraction, which at those distances could amount to six or seven minutes of arc and change from hour to hour."

    #Atmosphere #Refraction #Physics #Math #GIS #Datum #Survey #Geodetic #Map #Optics #Science #Parallax #Cool #NewMexico #Theodolite

  9. Atmospheric refraction, due to the different temperature/altitude profile in the atmosphere at different times of day...makes distant mountains appear taller or shorter.

    The attached photo is a comparison of what I shot yesterday afternoon and this morning. The camera was set up within inches of the same location for both shots, and those mountains are between 50 and 120 miles away...so I'm saying that any parallax effect from camera location is essentially zero.

    I have annotated with arrows where it's easy to make a comparison of how the near and far ridge lines overlap differently in the two photos.

    This is a follow up to:
    universeodon.com/@KrajciTom/11

    Imagine the care that was needed to conduct surveys before the GPS/GNSS era:
    explorersweb.com/the-five-men-

    "The Great Theodolite built by Troughton & Simms in London stood nearly 1.5m high, had a horizontal circle one meter in diameter, and could read angles to a single second of arc. Moving it required 30 porters and sometimes elephants."

    "The reduction of Nicolson’s observations was a colossal task. Each ray from each station had to be corrected for instrumental error, for temperature and pressure, and for the curvature of the Earth. Above all, they needed to correct for atmospheric refraction, which at those distances could amount to six or seven minutes of arc and change from hour to hour."

    #Atmosphere #Refraction #Physics #Math #GIS #Datum #Survey #Geodetic #Map #Optics #Science #Parallax #Cool #NewMexico #Theodolite

  10. Atmospheric refraction, due to the different temperature/altitude profile in the atmosphere at different times of day...makes distant mountains appear taller or shorter.

    The attached photo is a comparison of what I shot yesterday afternoon and this morning. The camera was set up within inches of the same location for both shots, and those mountains are between 50 and 120 miles away...so I'm saying that any parallax effect from camera location is essentially zero.

    I have annotated with arrows where it's easy to make a comparison of how the near and far ridge lines overlap differently in the two photos.

    This is a follow up to:
    universeodon.com/@KrajciTom/11

    Imagine the care that was needed to conduct surveys before the GPS/GNSS era:
    explorersweb.com/the-five-men-

    "The Great Theodolite built by Troughton & Simms in London stood nearly 1.5m high, had a horizontal circle one meter in diameter, and could read angles to a single second of arc. Moving it required 30 porters and sometimes elephants."

    "The reduction of Nicolson’s observations was a colossal task. Each ray from each station had to be corrected for instrumental error, for temperature and pressure, and for the curvature of the Earth. Above all, they needed to correct for atmospheric refraction, which at those distances could amount to six or seven minutes of arc and change from hour to hour."

    #Atmosphere #Refraction #Physics #Math #GIS #Datum #Survey #Geodetic #Map #Optics #Science #Parallax #Cool #NewMexico #Theodolite

  11. "The absence of #Canadian #geodetic observatories has direct consequences for its own space program. #RADARSAT, once a symbol of Canadian leadership in space, is today the only major commercial synthetic aperture radar mission not supported by the International Laser Ranging Service." - Anusuya Datta

  12. "The absence of #Canadian #geodetic observatories has direct consequences for its own space program. #RADARSAT, once a symbol of Canadian leadership in space, is today the only major commercial synthetic aperture radar mission not supported by the International Laser Ranging Service." - Anusuya Datta

  13. "The absence of #Canadian #geodetic observatories has direct consequences for its own space program. #RADARSAT, once a symbol of Canadian leadership in space, is today the only major commercial synthetic aperture radar mission not supported by the International Laser Ranging Service." - Anusuya Datta

  14. "The absence of #Canadian #geodetic observatories has direct consequences for its own space program. #RADARSAT, once a symbol of Canadian leadership in space, is today the only major commercial synthetic aperture radar mission not supported by the International Laser Ranging Service." - Anusuya Datta

  15. "The absence of #Canadian #geodetic observatories has direct consequences for its own space program. #RADARSAT, once a symbol of Canadian leadership in space, is today the only major commercial synthetic aperture radar mission not supported by the International Laser Ranging Service." - Anusuya Datta

  16. " #Canada’s failure to invest in modern #geodetic infrastructure has left it dependent on foreign systems...on the key networks of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) and Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) — the backbone of the world’s geodetic infrastructure — Canada looks no different from Africa..." gogeomatics.ca/canadas-geodesy

  17. " #Canada’s failure to invest in modern #geodetic infrastructure has left it dependent on foreign systems...on the key networks of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) and Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) — the backbone of the world’s geodetic infrastructure — Canada looks no different from Africa..." gogeomatics.ca/canadas-geodesy

  18. " #Canada’s failure to invest in modern #geodetic infrastructure has left it dependent on foreign systems...on the key networks of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) and Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) — the backbone of the world’s geodetic infrastructure — Canada looks no different from Africa..." gogeomatics.ca/canadas-geodesy

  19. " #Canada’s failure to invest in modern #geodetic infrastructure has left it dependent on foreign systems...on the key networks of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) and Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) — the backbone of the world’s geodetic infrastructure — Canada looks no different from Africa..." gogeomatics.ca/canadas-geodesy

  20. " #Canada’s failure to invest in modern #geodetic infrastructure has left it dependent on foreign systems...on the key networks of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) and Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) — the backbone of the world’s geodetic infrastructure — Canada looks no different from Africa..." gogeomatics.ca/canadas-geodesy

  21. Researchers employ advanced #geodetic techniques to understand the river #Isar‘s behavior, #sediment transport, and the impact of human activities on this unique #ecosystem: go.tum.de/846800

    #geodesy

    📷S.Höcht

  22. Researchers employ advanced #geodetic techniques to understand the river #Isar‘s behavior, #sediment transport, and the impact of human activities on this unique #ecosystem: go.tum.de/846800

    #geodesy

    📷S.Höcht

  23. Researchers employ advanced #geodetic techniques to understand the river #Isar‘s behavior, #sediment transport, and the impact of human activities on this unique #ecosystem: go.tum.de/846800

    #geodesy

    📷S.Höcht

  24. Researchers employ advanced #geodetic techniques to understand the river #Isar‘s behavior, #sediment transport, and the impact of human activities on this unique #ecosystem: go.tum.de/846800

    #geodesy

    📷S.Höcht

  25. Researchers employ advanced #geodetic techniques to understand the river #Isar‘s behavior, #sediment transport, and the impact of human activities on this unique #ecosystem: go.tum.de/846800

    #geodesy

    📷S.Höcht

  26. As A USGS Employee Working In Spatial Data: hehehehehehehehe
    --
    xkcd.com/2920/ <-- link to XKCD cartoon
    --
    "The standard North American NAD83 coordinate system is misaligned from the actual Earth, off-centre by about 7 feet. Someone knows where I am, and I'm in the wrong place."
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #humour #humor #datums #coordinatesystems #NAD83 #NAVD88 #mappymeme #survey #USGS #NGS #benchmark #surveymarker #NorthAmerica #geodetic #geodesy
    @XKCD

  27. As A USGS Employee Working In Spatial Data: hehehehehehehehe
    --
    xkcd.com/2920/ <-- link to XKCD cartoon
    --
    "The standard North American NAD83 coordinate system is misaligned from the actual Earth, off-centre by about 7 feet. Someone knows where I am, and I'm in the wrong place."
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #humour #humor #datums #coordinatesystems #NAD83 #NAVD88 #mappymeme #survey #USGS #NGS #benchmark #surveymarker #NorthAmerica #geodetic #geodesy
    @XKCD

  28. As A USGS Employee Working In Spatial Data: hehehehehehehehe
    --
    xkcd.com/2920/ <-- link to XKCD cartoon
    --
    "The standard North American NAD83 coordinate system is misaligned from the actual Earth, off-centre by about 7 feet. Someone knows where I am, and I'm in the wrong place."
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #humour #humor #datums #coordinatesystems #NAD83 #NAVD88 #mappymeme #survey #USGS #NGS #benchmark #surveymarker #NorthAmerica #geodetic #geodesy
    @XKCD

  29. As A USGS Employee Working In Spatial Data: hehehehehehehehe
    --
    xkcd.com/2920/ <-- link to XKCD cartoon
    --
    "The standard North American NAD83 coordinate system is misaligned from the actual Earth, off-centre by about 7 feet. Someone knows where I am, and I'm in the wrong place."
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #humour #humor #datums #coordinatesystems #NAD83 #NAVD88 #mappymeme #survey #USGS #NGS #benchmark #surveymarker #NorthAmerica #geodetic #geodesy
    @XKCD

  30. As A USGS Employee Working In Spatial Data: hehehehehehehehe
    --
    xkcd.com/2920/ <-- link to XKCD cartoon
    --
    "The standard North American NAD83 coordinate system is misaligned from the actual Earth, off-centre by about 7 feet. Someone knows where I am, and I'm in the wrong place."

    @XKCD

  31. Geodetic Rates versus Geologic Slip Rates: Are They Equal?

    Gauriau & Dolan explore the circumstances under which geologic slip rates and a geodetic slip-deficit rates may align or diverge.

    Read more at: doi.org/10.26443/seismica.v3i1

    #Seismology #EarthquakeScience #peerreviewed #DiamondOpenAccess #earthquake #OpenAccess #openscience #geodetic #geology

  32. Geodetic Rates versus Geologic Slip Rates: Are They Equal?

    Gauriau & Dolan explore the circumstances under which geologic slip rates and a geodetic slip-deficit rates may align or diverge.

    Read more at: doi.org/10.26443/seismica.v3i1

    #Seismology #EarthquakeScience #peerreviewed #DiamondOpenAccess #earthquake #OpenAccess #openscience #geodetic #geology

  33. Geodetic Rates versus Geologic Slip Rates: Are They Equal?

    Gauriau & Dolan explore the circumstances under which geologic slip rates and a geodetic slip-deficit rates may align or diverge.

    Read more at: doi.org/10.26443/seismica.v3i1

    #Seismology #EarthquakeScience #peerreviewed #DiamondOpenAccess #earthquake #OpenAccess #openscience #geodetic #geology

  34. Geodetic Rates versus Geologic Slip Rates: Are They Equal?

    Gauriau & Dolan explore the circumstances under which geologic slip rates and a geodetic slip-deficit rates may align or diverge.

    Read more at: doi.org/10.26443/seismica.v3i1

    #Seismology #EarthquakeScience #peerreviewed #DiamondOpenAccess #earthquake #OpenAccess #openscience #geodetic #geology

  35. Geodetic Rates versus Geologic Slip Rates: Are They Equal?

    Gauriau & Dolan explore the circumstances under which geologic slip rates and a geodetic slip-deficit rates may align or diverge.

    Read more at: doi.org/10.26443/seismica.v3i1

    #Seismology #EarthquakeScience #peerreviewed #DiamondOpenAccess #earthquake #OpenAccess #openscience #geodetic #geology