page_title: Geodesy
hierarchical_section_title: Geodesy
caption_attribution_description: English: Archive of the Landesamt für Vermessung und Geoinformation, containing a couple of hundred tons of stone litography plates with maps of Bavaria. Picture taken as part of the Lange Nacht der Museen in Munich.
context_page_description: Geodesy, which is sometimes called geodetics, is a scientific branch of geography which deals with describing the surface of the earth. Friedrich Robert Helmert, who started the discipline, talked about measuring and mapping the surface of the earth. This includes its geometric description and the measurement and description of its gravitational field. Some people involved in the discipilne look at geodynamics, the crusts, the tides, or the motion of the geographical poles.
context_section_description: Geodesy, which is sometimes called geodetics, is a scientific branch of geography which deals with describing the surface of the earth. Friedrich Robert Helmert (1843-1917), who started the discipline, talked about measuring and mapping the surface of the earth. This includes its geometric description (the geoid) and the measurement and description of its gravitational field. Some people involved in the discipilne look at geodynamics, the crusts, the tides, or the motion of the geographical poles.
caption: A Munich archive with lithography plates of maps of Bavaria
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