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Fig. J.1.
Projective heights in geometry space, orthogonal projection
p
=
π
(
P
) of a topographic point
X
∈
T
2
onto a local horizontal plane
X
0
∈
T
2
, minimal distance mapping
δ
2
=0
X
−
x
Indeed, for a suitable choice of surface parameters/surface coordinates of a chart, the uncon-
strained optimization problem may be preferable to constraint optimization, however, which we
do not want to treat here.
P
2
Fig. J.2.
Projective heights in geometry space, minimal distance mapping with respect to a reference plane
at
X
0
∈
T
2
, orthogonal projection
p
=
π
(
P
)
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