Some methods of adjusting a terrestrial spatial network (Part 1)

Summary

In the Part 1 and in a subsequent Part 2 to be published two methods of adjusting a spatial terrestrial network in tri-dimensional space are described. Care has been taken that the nature of the equations used, as well as of the adjustment, correspond to the same in adjustment satellite networks. The adjustment was carried out by the least-squares method according to conditioned observations. Various types of condition equations have been constructed according to the various types of adjusted quantities, and the various alternatives of the introduced errors (changes of input values) and weights. An effort was made to eliminate the ellipsoid of reference to the largest extent. The theory was applied numerically to a model of a smaller network which corresponds in position and height to usual triangulation networks with side lengths of about 30 km.