Abstract
The similarity between resection methods presented in the previous chapter and intersection methods discussed herein is their application of angular observations. The distinction between the two however, is that for resection, the unknown station is occupied while for intersection, the unknown station is observed. Resection uses measuring devices (e.g., theodolite, total station, camera etc.) which occupy the unknown station. Angular (direction) observations are then measured to three or more known stations as we saw in the preceding chapter. Intersection approach on the contrary measures angular (direction) observations to the unknown station; with the measuring device occupying each of the three or more known stations. It has the advantage of being able to position an unknown station which can not be physically occupied. Such cases are encountered for instance during engineering constructions or cadastral surveying. During civil engineering construction for example, it may occur that a station can not be occupied because of swampiness or risk of sinking ground. In such a case, intersection approach can be used. The method is also widely applicable in photogrammetry. In aero-triangulation process, simultaneous resection and intersection are carried out where common rays from two or more overlapping photographs intersect at a common ground point (see e.g., Fig. 15.1).
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Remark: In computing space angles, one should take into consideration the fact that the units of the angles in this example are in gons, i.e., 360∘ = 400 gons. To obtain the values in radians, one needs to multiply the given gon value by π and divide by 200. In addition, when using Eq. 16.30 to get cos(ψ ij ), consider Fig. 17.1.
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Awange, J.L., Paláncz, B. (2016). Positioning by Intersection Methods. In: Geospatial Algebraic Computations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25465-4_17
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