Accurate Conversion of Earth-Fixed Earth-Centered Coordinates to Geodetic Coordinates

Karl Osen (1)

1 NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology [Trondheim]

A closed form algorithm for the exact transformation of Earth-Centered Earth-Fixed (ECEF) coordinates to geodetic coordinates is presented that is computationally fast, safe and accurate. Boosting the computational robustness of Jijie Zhu's algorithm, it reduces the worst case transformation error by up to 500 million times.

Domaines: Logiciel mathématique [cs.MS]

Karl Osen. Accurate Conversion of Earth-Fixed Earth-Centered Coordinates to Geodetic Coordinates. [Research Report] Norwegian University of Science and Technology. 2017. ⟨hal-01704943v2⟩