A Graphical Method for Great Circle Routes

A great circle route (GCR) is the shortest route on a spherical earth model. Do we have a visual diagram to handle the shortest route? In this paper, a graphical method (GM) is proposed to solve the GCR problems based on the celestial meridian diagram (CMD) in celestial navigation. Unlike developed...

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Main Authors: Hsu Tien-Pen, Chen Chih-Li, Hsieh Tsung-Hsuan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2017-03-01
Series:Polish Maritime Research
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/pomr-2017-0002