Earth, in fact, is an ellipsoid ... And then you have the geoid people—the ones who think of Earth less as an imperfect sphere and more as a lumpy potato. C. K. Shum, a professor at Ohio ...

While we often think of the earth as a sphere, our planet is actually very ... will create an equally high-resolution regional gravimetric geoid model. For a specific country, GPS-derived ellipsoid ...

“So technically it’s not a sphere, but what we call an ellipsoid, because as the planet ... the level that the water takes is called a geoid — and that is controlled by these density ...

GNSS has its own vertical reference, a reference ellipsoid that approximates the shape of the Earth (GEOID). So, when your GNSS receiver reports elevations, it generally reports them as the Height ...

Known as the Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL), this region ... “Technically, it’s not a sphere, but what we call an ellipsoid, because as the planet rotates, the middle part bulges outward.” ...

Elger, Like all scientific mysteries, the Indian Ocean geoid ... a perfect sphere, and we wouldn't be able to, say, launch and use satellites if we wrongly acted as if it was. An ellipsoid ...

Six of the scenarios led to a geoid low, resembling the one ... So technically it’s not a sphere, but what we call an ellipsoid, because as the planet rotates the middle part bulges outward.” ...

The area in question is called the Indian Ocean Geoid Low and sea level above it ... And while many people think the Earth is a perfectly-shaped sphere, it isn’t so simple, said Ghosh.