@ARTICLE{Ligas_Marcin_Conversion_2011, author={Ligas, Marcin and Banasik, Piotr}, volume={vol. 60}, number={No 2}, journal={Geodesy and Cartography}, howpublished={online}, year={2011}, publisher={Commitee on Geodesy PAS}, abstract={A new method to transform from Cartesian to geodetic coordinates is presented. It is based on the solution of a system of nonlinear equations with respect to the coordinates of the point projected onto the ellipsoid along the normal. Newton’s method and a modification of Newton’s method were applied to give third-order convergence. The method developed was compared to some well known iterative techniques. All methods were tested on three ellipsoidal height ranges: namely, (-10 – 10 km) (terrestrial), (20 – 1000 km), and (1000 – 36000 km) (satellite). One iteration of the presented method, implemented with the third-order convergence modified Newton’s method, is necessary to obtain a satisfactory level of accuracy for the geodetic latitude ( σ φ < 0.0004”) and height ( σ h < 10 − 6 km, i.e. less than a millimetre) for all the heights tested. The method is slightly slower than the method of Fukushima (2006) and Fukushima’s (1999) fast implementation of Bowring’s (1976) method.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Conversion between Cartesian and geodetic coordinates on a rotational ellipsoid by solving a system of nonlinear equations}, URL={http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/98324/PDF/art05.pdf}, doi={10.2478/v10277-012-0013-x}, keywords={Cartesian and geodetic coordinates, rotational ellipsoid, Newton’s method, coordinate transformation}, }