Geodetic Glacier [SEP] continent
Geodetic Glacier
Geodetic Glacier () is a glacier flowing east from Bettle Peak along the north side of the Thomas Heights into Bowers Piedmont Glacier, on the Scott Coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The name is one of a group in the area associated with surveying applied in 1993 by the New Zealand Geographic Board, and comes from geodesy, the branch of applied mathematics concerned with measuring, or determining the shape of the earth, and the precise location of points on its surface.
the mass balance measured between specific dates. The mass balance is measured on the fixed date each year, again sometime near the start of October in the mid northern latitudes.
Measurement methods Geodetic methods.
Geodetic methods are an indirect method for the determination of mass balance of glacier. Maps of a glacier made at two different points in time can be compared and the difference in glacier thickness observed used to determine the mass balance over a span of years. This is best accomplished today using Differential Global Positioning System. Sometimes the