The scientific discipline that deals with the measurement and representation of the earth, its gravitational field and geodynamic phenomena (polar motion, earth tides, and tectonic motion) in three-dimensional, time-varying space.
“To get this purpose, geophysical and geodetics concepts are used.”
(sciences, geography) The discipline which deals with the measurement and representation of Earth, its gravitational field and geodynamic phenomena (polar motion, Earth tides, and crustal motion) in three-dimensional, time-varying space
“In the field of geodesy, however, Eratosthenes will always be remembered for his measurements of the Earth.”
“He worked on geodesy but became interested in conformal map projections where he invented a quincuncial map projection using elliptic functions.”
“These are commonly considered to include plutology, with geodesy, geothermometry, seismology, and tectonophysics as subdivisions.”