«Why Should One Know Geodesy?”
Geodesy is the theoretical foundation of surveying. It means that a surveying
engineer needs to know geodesy in much the same way as an electrical engineer
needs to know electricity, a chemical engineer needs to know electricity, a chemical
engineer needs to know chemistry, or a mechanical engineer needs to know
mechanics. The lack of the geodetic component in the educational formation reduces
a surveying engineer to a technician. A surveying technician (technologist) ideally
should have a surveying diploma from a college or technological school. The
technician should be well versed (сведущий) in the routine of various kinds of data
collection with some understanding of what can be done, or is being done, with the
collected data. Thus, among the variety of subjects a technician is taught, only a
superficial (поверхностный, неглубокий) understanding of geodesy is needed.
The last century opened a new area for geodesy. It had to do so because
geodesy faced new problems, which the classic methods were not able to solve. In
earlier times, most countries were satisfied to have their own geodetic control point
systems. For that purpose even poor dimensions of the Earth and the classic arc-
measuring method were sufficient. It did not matter how much the control point
systems of various countries differed from one another. During the last century,
however, the geodetics have had to join to the same system not only the geodesy
systems of various countries, but of different continents as well. In order to this, we
have to know the accuracy of the dimensions of the Earth as well as its detailed
shape.
[Источник: Английский язык. Сборник общенаучных и технических текстов на английском
языке: для магистрантов, студентов 1-го, 2-го курсов заоч- ного, дневного и вечернего отделений по
специальностям академии [Текст]. Часть 2 / Л.М. Никулина. – Новосибирск: СГГА, 2008. – 69 с., с.40.]
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