Author: Blotwijk, M. J. ; Smits, A. B. ; & Jutte, M. G. G. J. ; editors: [ Laboratorium voor Geodetische Rekentechniek ]
Title: Daar heb ik veertig jaar over nagedacht : Feestbundel ter gelegenheid van de 65ste verjaardag van Professor Baarda
Description: Delft [Netherlands], Laboratorium voor Geodetisch, 1982. orig.wrappers. 22x14cm, xviii,674 pp. TWO VOLUMES. Weighs 1000 grams. Spine title: "Forty Years of Thought. Name on cover. Some minor rubbing. VG. ¶ A festschrift for the Dutch professor of geodesy Willem Baarda [1917-2005],Contains 37 papers, all in English. Includes: A concept of deformation analysis by digital image processing; Reliability of networks: A practical problem; Jacobi's Theorem; Inversion free predictors; The importance of regionalized functions when modelling physcial quantities; Vectors, quaternions and spinors: A discussion of algebras underlining three- dimensional geodesy; S-transformations & projections for obtaining estimable parameters; Non-linear adjustment and curvature; Geodetic tests of the plate tectonics model; On the invariants of the gravity field; Worst possible effects of systemic errors in geodetic networks adjusted by the least squares method; Alternate use of restriction equations in Gauss- Markoff adjustments; etc.

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