tellurometer

The Tellurometer was the first successful microwave electronic distance measurement equipment.

He also invented the tellurometer, which could measure up to a distance of 80 km; it was used in land surveying.

He developed an ionosonde for measuring Earth's ionosphere, and a ranging tellurometer.

Beadell put considerable effort into rediscovering Vokes Hill while surveying the track, as a new device called a Tellurometer was being introduced.

Secondly the name derives from the Tellurometer South Africa's world first electronic surveying development-and by implication a commitment to ongoing electronic research and development.

Dr Trevor Wadley, invented the Tellurometer in 1957, the Wadley Loop and an Ionosonde.

Mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from Tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1960-62.

The Tellurometer design yields high accuracy distance measurements over geodetic distances, but it is also useful for second order survey work, especially in areas where the terrain was rough and/or the temperatures extreme.

At the time, IMC was in the process of industrialising a unique South African invention, the Tellurometer, the first successful microwave electronic distance measurement equipment (EDM).

The feature was the terminal tellurometer station of the 1969 ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) Prince Charles Mountains survey.

In 1967, ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) surveyor J. Manning selected a route through the crevasses and established a beaconed tellurometer station on it.

The Tellurometer emits an electronic wave: the remote station reradiates the incoming wave in a similar wave of more complex modulation, and the resulting phase shift was a measure of the distance travelled.

Examples of remote locations mapped using Tellurometer surveys are Adams Bluff, Churchill Mountains, Cook Mountains, Jacobsen Glacier, Mount Albright, Mount Predoehl, Mount Summerson, Sherwin Peak and Vogt Peak.