Detlef Angermann holds a doctorate in geodesy and heads the Research Area Reference Systems at the Deutsches Geodatisches Forschungsinstitut of the Technical University of Munich. Roland Pail is Professor of Astronomical and Physical Geodesy at the Technical University of Munich. Florian Seitz is Professor of Geodetic Geodynamics and heads the Deutsches Geodatisches Forschungsinstitut of the Technical University of Munich. Urs Hugentobler is Professor of Satellite Geodesy and heads the Satellite Geodesy Research Facility of the Technical University of Munich.
English translation of original German book review: With this book, the authors have succeeded in an impressive way in presenting modern geodesy - using the example of global geodesy - in a lively and descriptive manner with regard to its possibilities and achievements and in placing it in the scientific and societal context...It is very worthwhile to read the book ... . (Hansjoerg Kutterer, in: zfv - Zeitschrift fur Geodasie, Geoinformation und Landmanagement, Jg. 146, Heft 2, 2021)