The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

The Struve Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through 10 countries and over 2,820 km. These are points of a survey, carried out between 1816 ...

In Liberty, Texas, embedded into the sidewalk running along the north side of Trinity Street, one block west of the courthouse and opposite of City Hall, is a curious emblem, engraved around its outer ...

No audio available for this content. As president-elect of the American Association for Geodetic Surveying (AAGS), I participated in a joint quarterly meeting with the National Geodetic Survey (NGS), ...

No audio available for this content. First, it should be noted that this award is denoted as the MSU geospatial modeling award; that said, the execution of the project will be led by MSU, along with ...

Motion of the Earth's surface mass, including the atmosphere and oceans as well as hydrology and glacier melting, causes the redistribution of Earth's surface loads, deformation of the solid Earth, ...

The study of geodetic numbers in graph theory represents a compelling fusion of abstract mathematical ideas with practical applications across network analysis, computational optimisation, and ...

Geodetic network deformation analysis is pivotal in monitoring crustal movements, land subsidence, and infrastructure stability. Recent advancements have focused on refining robust estimation methods ...

The geodetic infrastructure and its products, notably the terrestrial reference frame, provides the information needed to pinpoint the locations of satellite, aircraft, and ground-based instruments ...