2011 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
2. Metrology Principles and Organization
Erschienen in:
Springer Handbook of Metrology and Testing
Abstract
This chapter describes the basic elements of metrology, the system that allows measurements made in different laboratories to be confidently compared. As the aim of this chapter is to give an overview of the whole field, the development of metrology from its roots to the birth of the Metre Convention and metrology in the 21st century is given.
