The AMS was also involved in the preparation of extraterrestrial maps of satellite and planetary bodies; the preparation of national intelligence studies; the establishment of world geodetic control networks by both satellite and conventional triangulation methods; and the logistic military planning of Corps of Engineer items.
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The extreme length of the tree from the stump to the top twigs was 300 feet !---- Greenfield Gazette . " In 1995 Robert Leverett and Will Blozan measured the Boogerman Pine, a white pine in Great Smokey Mountains National Park, at a height of 207 feet in 1995 using ground based cross triangulation methods.
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In the field, triangulation methods were apparently not used by the Roman specialist land surveyors, the " agromensores "; but were introduced into medieval Spain through translated into Latin ( a manual on geometry, the eleventh century " Geomatria incerti auctoris " is a rare exception ), and such techniques appear to have percolated only slowly into the rest of Europe.
