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Wettzell Laser Ranging System
Wettzell may refer to: * , a district (village) of Bad Kötzting, Germany * Geodetic Observatory Wettzell, located west of the village Wettzell * 38270 Wettzell, a minor planet {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Kötzting
Bad Kötzting (; before 2005: Kötzting; Northern Bavarian: ''Bad Ketzing'') is a town in the district of Cham, in Bavaria, Germany, near the Czech border. It is situated in the Bavarian Forest, southeast of Cham. Overview Bad Kötzting has the charming character of a small town and offers quite a variety of attractions for tourists. The locals pride themselves with having one of the largest mounted religious processions in the world, the "Kötztinger Pfingstritt". Legend has it that in the year 1412, a man who got injured during forestry was asking for the last rites before dying in a village approximately away from Kötzting. The local priest was unable to comply with the wishes of the man because he needed protection from bears, wolves, and other dangers luring along the way. After asking the young men of the village to protect him, they accompanied the priest to the dying man. After a safe journey, the participants vowed to repeat the ride every year. That is how it remained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geodetic Observatory Wettzell
The Geodetic Observatory Wettzell is located atop the 616 meter-high mountain Wagnerberg, west of the village Wettzell in the Germany, German Cham (district), district Cham in the Bavarian Forest. Tasks It is operated for the purpose of geodesy by the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy together with the Technical University of Munich and is today one of the most important Geodesy, geodetic Observatory, observatories in the world. As observing station, the Geodetic Observatory Wettzell has the task of gathering measuring data for the geodetic space techniques Very-long-baseline interferometry, VLBI, Satellite laser ranging, SLR, Satellite navigation, GNSS and DORIS (geodesy), DORIS. These data are used for realizing global Spatial reference system, coordinate reference systems that form the basis for numerous issues in the field of geosciences (e.g. continental drift, sea level rise), in aerospace, but also in areas of everyday life (e.g. surveying, navigation). These g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
