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colatitude

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colatitude [kō′lad·ə‚tüd]
(geodesy)
Ninety degrees minus the latitude.
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The corresponding pivotal section is a circle which depends only on k and on the colatitude [theta] of the normal to the pivotal plane.
Comparative precision of the pivotal estimators of particle size by Cruz-Orive, Luis M. / Image Analysis and Stereology
2 Preliminaries To mathematically formulate the problem, we begin by defining the spherical harmonic spectral expansion of a function f([theta], [PHI]) with colatitude coordinate [theta] [member of] [0, [pi]] and longitude coordinate [PHI] [member of] [0, 2[pi]] as follows: Definition 2.
An automated method for recovering piecewise smooth functions on ... by Blakely, Chris; Gelb, Anne; Navarra, Antonio / Sampling Theory in Signal and Image Processing
2] is an adopted gravity mass constant of the EGM96; (r, [theta], [lambda]) are geocentric radius, spherical colatitude, and longitude of the computational point, respectively; a = 6 378136.
An improved gravity anomaly grid and a geoid model for ... by Ellmann, Artu / Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences: Geology
 
 
 
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