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This paper presents an appreciation of the work of Marussi and Hotine, and gives a survey of my investigations of Gaussian differential geometry which are required in formulating the generalized Marussi-Hotine approach to differential geodesy. It is not intended to be either a comprehensive survey, or a status report, on the beautiful contributions of other authors in different approaches to differential geodesy.
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Zund, J.D. (2004). Gaussian Differential Geometry and Differential Geodesy. In: Sansò, F. (eds) V Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Mathematical Geodesy. International Association of Geodesy Symposia, vol 127. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10735-5_2
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