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Oct 15, 2002
Transformation of Survey Coordinates—Another Look at an Old Problem
Publication: Journal of Surveying Engineering
Volume 128, Issue 4
Abstract
A procedure is discussed that combines the best aspects of the usual “rigid body” (three parameter affine) and the similarity (Helmert) least-squares procedures found in most civil engineering enhancements to popular computer-aided design programs. The procedure will work to transform North American Datum of 1927 coordinates into the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83) system, and will work in transforming arbitrary coordinates (coordinates derived in an arbitrary system) to NAD83. In all of these transformations, coordinates of a number of points are required in both systems, and provide the basis for the transformation.
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Anderson, J., and Mikhail, E. (1998). Surveying theory and practice, 7th Ed., McGraw-Hill, New York.
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Received: Nov 27, 2001
Accepted: Nov 27, 2001
Published online: Oct 15, 2002
Published in print: Nov 2002
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William H. Sprinsky
PhD, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering Technology, 1 College Ave., Williamsport, PA 17701.
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