@@ -14,34 +14,27 @@ as well as participation from the German and Italian space agencies.
1414 `NASA's Earth data Search <https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/nasadem_hgtv001/ >`_.
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1616
17- This is a first step forward stopping consider Earth as a constant plane better
18- results when we are flying next to mountains or valleys
17+ Including the topography provides more accurate results when flying next to mountains or valleys.
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2019Initialization
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2221
23- First of all , we import the Environment class:
22+ Let us consider a fictional launch in Switzerland. First , we set the basic information about our Environment object
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2726 from rocketpy import Environment
28-
29- For example, let's set an Environment consider a fictional launch at Switzerland.
30- First we need to set the basic information about our Environment object
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3427 env = Environment(latitude=46.90479, longitude=8.07575, datum="WGS84")
3528
3629.. note ::
3730
38- Notice that the datum argument is used only for the converting from geodesic \
39- (i.e. lat/lon) to UTM coordinate system.
31+ The datum argument is used only for converting from geodesic \
32+ (i.e. lat/lon) to the UTM coordinate system.
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4134Set the topographic profile
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4336
44- Now we finally set our topography
37+ Now we set our topography
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5649Find the launch site elevation
5750------------------------------
5851
59- Once we defined the topographic profile, we can find the launch site elevation
52+ Once the topographic profile is defined , we can find the launch site elevation
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@@ -72,8 +65,8 @@ And finally set the elevation to the Environment object:
7265Visualize information
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7467
75- Now we can see the elevation that we have set, as well as other important
76- attributes of our Environment object. We do that by running the
68+ To check the elevation we have set, as well as other important
69+ attributes of our Environment object, we run the
7770:meth: `rocketpy.Environment.info ` method:
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