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A height is a coordinate in \(\mathcal {R}^3\), used in a certain subset of our space, particularly in the framework of physical sciences of the Earth, to discriminate higher from lower points, in some sense to be specifically stated by the type of the height chosen.
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Note: indeed Geodesy is also interested in satellite dynamics even for very high satellites, yet at that altitude not all the coordinates discussed in this book are of particular significance: whence the reason to limit our discussion to a bounded region.
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Sansò, F., Reguzzoni, M., Barzaghi, R. (2019). Introduction. In: Geodetic Heights. Springer Geophysics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10454-2_1
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