Institute for Earth Measurement

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The Bamberg Institute for Earth Surveying was founded by the US occupation forces after the Second World War to continue some major geodetic projects in Hitler's Germany . The research institute dealt with higher geodesy and applied earth measurements and existed until the 1950s . Then it went on in the Frankfurt Institute for Applied Geodesy .

The most important project was the completion of the ZEN ( Central European Network ), with which the former German Army Surveyors began to merge the Central and Eastern European triangulation networks . With the data measured or captured during the war, a loose framework network of 1500 × 1500 km could be reached, but due to political developments it could only be completed west of the Iron Curtain .

A follow-up work was the European date 1950 , which also only extended over Western Europe, as well as an astronomical- geodetic geoid determination initiated by Helmut Wolf (University of Bonn) . There was also cooperation with the Karl Remeis observatory, which is also located in Bamberg .

literature

  • Karl Ledersteger : Astronomical and Physical Geodesy . Volume V by Jordan-Eggert-Kneissl, Handbook of Surveying. Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart 1969, DNB 456892842
  • Bernhard Heck: Calculation methods and evaluation models of the national survey , 3rd edition. Wichmann-Verlag, Karlsruhe 2003