Hydrographical surveying : a description of means and methods employed in constructing marine charts (1920)
Wharton, W. J. L. (William James Lloyd), 1843-1905, Field, Arthur Mostyn, 1855- · London : J. Murray · leaf 105
d as a station, that the observer finds on goingthere that he has to make his station on one side of it in orderto see what he wants, or has to make a supplementary stationto see a few objects obscured by the building, etc. This iscalled False Station, and if the object is already plotted, or S8… … The correction will vary according to the direction of theobjects with regard to the true station, as the figure annexedwill show. In Fig. 11 let A be the true station at which angles arerequired ; B the false station ; D, E, F, H objects so placedas to illustrate all positions of false and true…
Hydrographic surveying · Nautical charts
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