How do you use triangulation?

Answer 1

Answer #1:

Shooting two azimuths from different locations to find out where a target

object is by where the lines cross on a map. Alternatively, shooting azimuths

to two different objects to find out where YOU are.

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Answer #1.5 :

You are standing on one riverbank. There is a tree on the other riverbank.

You want to know the width of the river. People have tried stretching a

tape measure across it. None of them was ever seen again. You have to

come up with a better way to measure it. You will triangulate it.

-- Stand somewhere roughly opposite the tree. It doesn't have to be perfect.

Jam a bright red stick into the ground between your feet.

-- From there, with your tape measure, walk along the riverbank, mark exactly

100-ft from where you started, and set up your tripod there. Look through

your spotting scope and find the red stick in the ground on your side of the

river. Then measure the angle you have to turn the scope in order to spot the

tree on the other riverbank. Write down the angle in your notebook.

-- Go back to the red stick. Walk along the riverbank in the opposite direction,

mark exactly 100-ft that way, and set up your tripod there. Look through the

scope again and find the red stick in the ground on your side of the river. Then

measure the angle you have to turn the scope in order to spot the tree on the

other riverbank. Write that one down in your notebook too.

-- You have laid out a triangle. The three points that make the triangle are the

tree and the two points 100-ft in each direction from the red stick.

-- On your side of the river, you know the length of the triangle's 'base' ... it's 200 feet ...

and you know the angle of the triangle at each end of the base.

-- With that information and just a tiny bit of trigonometry, you can calculate the

width of the river at the place where the tree is ... it's the height (altitude) of the

triangle. You can do all the calculating indoors, with a pencil and paper, and it's

as accurate as your measurements of the 100-ft lengths and the two angles were.

Answer 2

Triangulation is used to compute the location of a point. For example, say you have three points on a piece of graph paper. You know the location of two points and the magnitude of the angles formed by the lines that join the points. Using math you can compute the location of the third point.

Answer 3

You need three liner measurements to locate anything in space, which the measurements share a vector. and from these measurements you can trianguate the location of anything.

Answer 4

Triangulation is a process of locating a certain point by measuring the distance between that point and other points. A compass is used for triangulation to measure angles.

Answer 5

trangulation is a way of determining something's location using the locations of other things.