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Conceptual planned method of tieing a worldwide satellite triangulationnetwork together

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Conceptual planned method of tieing a worldwide satellite triangulationnetwork together. The corners of the large polygons on the earth's surface were representations of BC-4 camera stations. Ideally the stations would be atleast 1,000 miles apart and the apices of equilateral triangles.

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Geodesy

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Geodesy

Satellite Triangulation

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