height datum

height datum

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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The site was at Easting 605090 Northing 6002080 GDA94 Zone 55, located east of Swampy Plains Creek Road at an elevation of 940 m Australian Height Datum (AHD), situated mid-slope with a westerly aspect, above a gully at the headwaters of Welumba Creek (Tooma River catchment).
On the other hand, global geoid models do not often coincide with the national height datum. What is more, in many countries quasigeoid models are applied as the reference datum in contrary to the geoid.
and You, Y.: 2013, Transfer of height datum across seas using GPS leveling, gravimetric geoid and corrections based on a polynomial surface.
This offset could be a consequence of the different datum definitions among the networks (official vertical datum versus the height datum of the triangulation benchmarks).
Research interests: geoid modelling, height datums, gravity field, plane coordinate systems.