A brief Note compiled by: Prof. Madhav N. Kulkarni, IIT Bombay Since the inception of the Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) system in 1967, this radio interferometry technique has revolutionised the fields of geodesy, geodynamics and astrometry. With the unprecedented precision and resolution made possible by VLBI various tasks such as geodetic positioning, reference frames interconnect...

Abstract Observations of land surface deformation are one the important tasks surveying, especially in landslide areas. They concern determination time magnitude deformation, on basis a stable reference system based geodetic control points. The whole measurement process can be divided into two parts. One part concerns observation points (geodetic points) and other object itself. In first, addit...

investigation and monitoring of the displacement field derived from deformation is among the important studies in earth science and geophysics topics, which plays a main role in the prevention and praxeology of natural disasters such as earthquake, subsidence, land slide et cetera. here we can mention the several methods in geodetic measurement and deformation monitoring such as spirit leveling...

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Buckley and Harary introduced several graphical invariants related to convexity theory, such as the geodetic number of a graph. These invariants have been the subject of much study and their determination has been shown to be NP -hard. We use the probabilistic method developed by Erdös to determine the asymptotic behavior of the geodetic number of random graphs with fixed edge probability. As a...

We show that for every integer k ≥ 2 and every k graphs G1, G2, . . . , Gk, there exists a hull graph with k hull vertices v1, v2, . . . , vk such that link L(vi) = Gi for 1 ≤ i ≤ k. Moreover, every pair a, b of integers with 2 ≤ a ≤ b is realizable as the hull number and geodetic number (or upper geodetic number) of a hull graph. We also show that every pair a, b of integers with a ≥ 2 and b ≥...

Classic convexity can be extended to graphs in a natural way by considering shortest paths, also called geodesics: a set S of vertices of a graph is convex if it contains all the vertices lying in some geodesic with endpoints in S and the convex hull of a set S of vertices is the minimum convex set containing S. Farber and Jamison [9] characterized the graphs such that every convex set is the c...

Due to the relative lack of empirical field data, the response of very small glaciers (here defined as being smaller than 0.5 km2) to current atmospheric warming is not fully understood yet. Investigating their mass balance, e.g. using the direct glaciological method, is a prerequisite to fill this knowledge gap. Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) techniques operating in the near infrared range c...