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Conceptual planned method of tieing a worldwide satellite triangulation network together. The corners of the large polygons on the earth's surface were representations of BC-4 camera stations. Ideally the stations would be at least 1,000 miles apart and the apices of equilateral triangles.

Image ID: geod0004, NOAA's Geodesy Collection


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