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But chart datum will be known, as will the hight of the satellite. So not to hard to work out.
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Understand that; it was the process by which chart datum goes from not being known to being known that was puzzling me. Anyway, thanks for all the replies; I've got a much better idea of how it's done than I did before. Still not entirely clear how the depth of the 'benchmarks' that tome mentioned are determined, but perhaps we'd best leave that for now!